Journal article
Neuroses: A Comprehensive and Critical View
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.240(19), pp.2101-2102
11/03/1978
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1978.03290190079042
Abstract
The title of this book is misleading. Because the neuroses have traditionally been associated with psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches to diagnosis and treatment, at least in American psychiatry, a book titled Neuroses leads one to expect a heavy emphasis on Freud, Abraham, Horney, and Kernberg. This book deals with much more than that. It also emphasizes Kraepelin, Wundt, Kahlbaum, Esquirol, Pinel, and many other modern nonpsychoanalytic writers. However, it is not solely biological or medical in its approach. It is comprehensive.Gray attempts, and by and large achieves, a thorough and thoughtful review of the history, purposes, and methods of psychiatric classification (his real subject in this book). He sets the stage in chapter 1 by tracing the term "neuroses" back to Cullen, who used it to refer to psychiatric disorders in general and who believed that they were due to a generalized organic disorder of the nervous system. In
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neuroses: A Comprehensive and Critical View
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.240(19), pp.2101-2102
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1978.03290190079042
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/03/1978
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984068360402771
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