Pathologist of the mind : Adolf Meyer and the origins of American psychiatry / S.D. Lamb.

  • Lamb, S. D., 1971-
Date:
2014
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Publication/Creation

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Physical description

xii, 299 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pathology as method : Adolf Meyer's vision for a clinical science of psychiatry -- Mind as biology : Adolf Meyer's concept of psychobiology -- Unique soil in Baltimore : the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital -- The baptismal child of American psychiatry : the Meyerian case history -- A wonderful center for mental orthopedics : Adolf Meyer's therapeutic experiment -- Subconscious adaptation : psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Meyerian psychiatry.

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    History of Medicine
    PP.6.AA8-9
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ISBN

  • 1421414848
  • 9781421414843