Psychiatrists' biographies

Current Opinion in Psychiatry
Paul Hoff

Abstract

This review focuses on publications dealing with psychiatrists' biographies. Compared with scientific mainstream topics in psychiatry, the present area constitutes a small but nonetheless highly heterogeneous field. The selected papers are categorized with regard to what relevance is given to biographical data in a narrow sense or to conceptual issues for which the biography of a certain author functions as an illustration. Mere hagiographic biographical notes were not taken into consideration, and nor were plain polemics. Although the differentiation mentioned above seems useful in order to get an overview, it is de facto not possible to clearly separate biographical from conceptual aspects. This may be true for all fields in the history of science, but it is definitely true in the history of psychiatry with its numerous long-standing theoretical controversies - many of them still unresolved and all of them closely linked with the lives of their prominent representatives. The biographical approach can be helpful in proving that research on the history of psychiatry--if done beyond mere hagiography or simple polemic--is of crucial importance for the understanding and development of theoretical and practical issues in our field.

References

Apr 30, 2003·Journal of Medical Biography·John Pearn, Christopher Gardner-Thorpe
Sep 18, 2003·Psychiatrische Praxis·Gabriel Richter
Sep 26, 2003·History of Psychiatry·Vladimir Lerner, Eliezer Witztum
Oct 2, 2003·History of Psychiatry·Hiroshi Yamanaka
Nov 6, 2003·Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences·Daria Colombo
Mar 3, 2004·European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience·Norbert Müller
Apr 22, 2004·Lancet Neurology·John McCrone
May 1, 2004·American Journal of Public Health·Theodore M Brown, Elizabeth Fee
May 14, 2004·Lancet·Ivan Oransky
May 22, 2004·Neuropsychopharmacology : Official Publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology·Lewis L Judd
May 26, 2004·Neurology·Christopher G Goetz
Jul 27, 2004·History of Psychiatry·Carl-Magnus Stolt, Linda Björkhem-Bergen
Sep 17, 2004·Journal of the History of the Neurosciences·Hannah S Decker
Sep 24, 2004·History of Psychiatry·Einar Kringlen
Oct 14, 2004·Lancet·Ivan Oransky
Jun 10, 2005·The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry·Don C Grant, Edwin Harari

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