A History of Clinical Psychiatry: The Origin and History of Psychiatric Disorders

The History of Clinical Psychiatry explores the history of significant psychiatric disorders from both a clinical and a social-historical perspective. Divided into three sections, the volume covers neuropsychiatric disorders such as dementia, stroke and Parkinson's disease; functional psychoses such as schizophrenia and depression; and neuroses and personality disorders. Other disorders covered within the three sections include delirium, unitary psychosis, depression and mania, delusional states, neurasthenia and the fatigue syndromes, anxiety and panic, eating disorders, and suicidal behavior.As the first synthesis of the work of clinicians and historians of psychiatry, The History of Clinical Psychiatry offers a unique perspective for scholars across disciplines. It is designed as the standard reference work on the subject for practitioners and students within medicine and psychiatry as well as for historians and those in the social sciences, and includes contributions from a diverse and distinguished group of scholars.