Journal article
Schizophrenia: Science and Practice
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.240(23), pp.2582-2582
12/01/1978
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1978.03290230074038
Abstract
Psychiatry is the only medical speciality to take seriously the philosophical controversy between the rationalists and the empiricists. For the past two centuries, medicine generally has accepted the empirical point of view: that its appropriate province is the study of the observable and measurable. On the other hand, since the time of Freud, psychiatry (especially in America) has stressed the importance of abstract psychological constructs, such as the role of the unconscious and interpersonal dynamics. During the past ten years a Neo-Kraepelinian revival (or revolt), originating in the Midwest, has urged that psychiatry return to the medical mainstream by adopting the empirical point of view. This book, focusing on schizophrenia, documents the civil warfare (civilly conducted) that has been occurring in American psychiatry and provides interesting reading on schizophrenia and the broader philosophical controversies.The book begins with an intelligent historical introduction written by Irwin Savodnik, who clearly outlines the
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Schizophrenia: Science and Practice
- Creators
- Nancy C Andreasen
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.240(23), pp.2582-2582
- Publisher
- American Medical Association
- DOI
- 10.1001/jama.1978.03290230074038
- ISSN
- 0098-7484
- eISSN
- 1538-3598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/01/1978
- Academic Unit
- Psychiatry; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984068332102771
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