This is the first historical dictionary of psychiatry. It covers
the subject from autism to Vienna, and includes the key concepts,
individuals, places, and institutions that have shaped the
evolution of psychiatry and the neurosciences. An introduction puts
broad trends and international differences in context, and there is
an extensive bibliography for further reading. Each entry gives the
main dates, themes, and personalities involved in the unfolding of
the topic. Longer entries describe the evolution of such subjects
as depression, schizophrenia, and psychotherapy. The book gives
ready reference to when things happened in psychiatry, how and
where they happened, and who made the main contributions. In
addition, it touches on such social themes as "women in
psychiatry," "criminality and psychiatry," and "homosexuality and
psychiatry." A comprehensive index makes immediately accessible
subjects that do not appear in the alphabetical listing. Among
those who will appreciate this dictionary are clinicians curious
about the origins of concepts they use in their daily practices,
such as "paranoia," "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors"
(SSRIs), or "tardive dyskinesia"; basic scientists who want ready
reference to the development of such concepts as
"neurotransmitters," "synapse," or "neuroimaging"; students of
medical history keen to situate the psychiatric narrative within
larger events, and the general public curious about illnesses that
might affect them, their families and their communities-or readers
who merely want to know about the grand chain of events from the
asylum to Freud to Prozac. Bringing together information from the
English, French, German, Italian, and Scandinavian languages, the
Dictionary rests on an enormous base of primary sources that cover
the growth of psychiatry through all of Western society.
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