American Madness

American Madness

Author: Richard Noll

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-10-24

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 0674047397

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The world of the American alienist, 1896 -- Adolf Meyer brings dementia praecox to America -- Emil Kraepelin -- The American reception of dementia praecox and manic depressive insanity, 1896-1905 -- The lost biological psychiatry -- The rise of the mind-twist men, 1903-1913 -- Bayard Taylor Holmes and radically rational treatments -- The rise of schizophrenia in America, 1912-1927.