03613nam 22007815 450 991025467750332120230810143120.01-137-45681-710.1057/9781137456816(CKB)3710000000636031(SSID)ssj0001646966(PQKBManifestationID)16417071(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001646966(PQKBWorkID)13808072(PQKB)10279456(DE-He213)978-1-137-45681-6(MiAaPQ)EBC4720682(EXLCZ)99371000000063603120160210d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrA Critical History of Schizophrenia /by Kieran McNally1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (IX, 269 p.) Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology,2946-2460Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-349-55226-7 1-137-45680-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Schizophrenia was psychiatry's arch concept of madness in the twentieth century. However, it was a concept that was both surprisingly problematic and contentious. This book explores schizophrenia's instability, as the concept changed across the 20th century. It moves beyond sensational accounts of kids on LSD and split personalities, to detail schizophrenia's historically problematic definition, diagnosis, and symptom profile. In doing so, Kieran McNally documents the social uses of the concept, its regional variations, and its fluctuating subtypes. And finally, the book explains how, and why, North American psychiatry sought to improve the concept in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), by introducing group sanctioned operational definitions. This book reveals a tradition of critical unease towards the concept of schizophrenia and it reveals that criticism of the concept was consistently voiced by many leading schizophrenia researchers - and not just by 'anti-psychiatrists'. It becomes clear that at no stage in its history was schizophrenia thought to be beyond improvement.Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology,2946-2460PsychologySocial sciencesHistoryClinical psychologyCritical psychologyScienceHistoryPsychology, PathologicalPsychiatryHistory of PsychologyClinical PsychologyCritical PsychologyHistory of SciencePsychopathologyPsychiatryPsychology.Social sciencesHistory.Clinical psychology.Critical psychology.ScienceHistory.Psychology, Pathological.Psychiatry.History of Psychology.Clinical Psychology.Critical Psychology.History of Science.Psychopathology.Psychiatry.616.89/8PSY007000PSY015000PSY018000PSY022050bisacshMcNally Kieranauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut770211BOOK9910254677503321Critical History of Schizophrenia1571013UNINA