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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"History of Psychiatry"”.
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The influence of dynamic psychiatry on <i>Tender Is the Night</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald
… attempt to redress the historical misapplication of literary and cultural theory in reading the psychiatric material of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <i>Tender Is the Night</i>. Critics have applied several, sometimes contradictory, theoretical lenses to the text. As a result, the text has been …
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"Neurotic Nationalism: The ""American Disease"" in American Modernist Literature"
… modernist literary criticism and the history of psychiatry---my dissertation offers scholars of American culture a new way to think about and theorize this period's marked interest in neurosis by connecting it to the debates over national identity which found new urgency in the early …
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Beyond the asylum: Colonial psychiatry in French Indochina, 1880-1940
… beyond the asylum to consider the development of psychiatry in French Indochina as the product of everyday exchanges between lay people and experts. Drawing on archival research conducted over two years in Vietnam and France - including hundreds of patient case files - I trace the movements of …
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Representations of Insanity in Art and Science of Nineteenth-Century France: From the Demonic to the Degenerate
This thesis seeks to analyze depictions of insanity in the nineteenth century, especially in France. Through research into the history of psychiatry and the history of image culture, I intend to explain the changing views of madness. Varying genres of art are used to explore these ideological …
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Music and Madness: Three Critical Case Studies
… develops the multiple connections between music history, theory, composition, and reception and the sociopolitical structures of madness in the twentieth century. My work first uncovers the various definitions of psychological abnormality as they have taken shape through discourses of Western …
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Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric Codifications: A Rhetorical History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
… (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1980, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a medical and cultural phenomenon. Moreover, it has led to the belief that PTSD is a universal aspect of human experience. Traumatic Formations and Psychiatric …
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DISABILITY, DEPENDENCY, AND THE MIND: REPRESENTATIONS OF CARE-GIVING AND RECEIVING
… and, in working to deconstruct the figure of the “cripple” as a symbol of pathos, has shied away from close examinations of pain, suffering, and dependency in favor of a focus on disability pride, agency, and community. As the field has grown, however, it has made room for investigations …
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Mental health and ideals of citizenship: Patient care at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1903-1962
In this thesis, I argue that U.S. psychiatry’s cultural project in the first half of the twentieth century was the reconstitution of mentally-distressed men and women for proper citizenship. This enterprise is visible on the wards, in the consulting rooms, and in the outpatient clinics of St. …
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The Therapist as Scientist: A Philosophical Appraisal of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), one of the most popular schools of contemporary psychotherapy, presents itself as "scientific" and "evidence-based", particularly in contrast with its predecessor, psychoanalysis. This scientific image has shaped CBT on a number of levels. For example, the …
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Mental Illness and the British Mandate in Palestine, 1920-1948
… in Palestine between 1920 and 1948. The subject of mental illness has hitherto received partial consideration by historians interested in the Yishuv, who treat this period as formative for the Israeli mental health service. This thesis shifts the focus from European Jewish psychiatrists to the …
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Landscape, madness, and state: The emerging insane asylum system of nineteenth-century New York State
… system. Author extended embargo through thesis office (12/7/2021).