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65
“from the medical point of view”:
Kraepelin,
Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry
, 1.
66
Julien Offray de La Mettrie:
For biographical information on La Mettrie, see Frederick the Great, “Eulogy on La Mettrie,” and Wellman,
La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy and Enlightenment
.
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“it possesses muscles”:
La Mettrie,
Machine Man
, 28.
66
a “machine that winds itself up”:
Ibid., 7.
66
a “vain term”:
Ibid., 26.
66
“everything can be explained”:
Ibid., 28.
66
the brain was divided:
Davies,
Phrenology
, 3–12.
66
“This doctrine concerning the head”:
Van Wyhe, “The Authority of Human Nature,” 25.
67
“There is always unending applause”:
Ibid., 29.
67
Spurzheim claimed:
Davies,
Phrenology
, 7.
67
nearly half the mental patients:
Steinach, “Etiology of General Paresis,” 877.
67
whose eyes were weak:
Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 101.
68
“masturbatory insanity”:
Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 103.
68
“Pathological anatomy”:
Kraepelin,
Lectures
, 27.
69
“Deus creavit”
: Blunt,
Linnaeus,
184.
70
“cut nature at its joints”:
Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 105.
71
dementia praecox
: Kraepelin,
Lectures
, 25.
71
involution psychosis
: Ibid., 15.
72
“All the insane are dangerous”:
Ibid., 2–3.
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to prevent the marriage of the insane:
Ibid., 3.
72
“the growing degeneration”:
Ibid., 4. See also Zilboorg and Henry,
A History of Medical Psychology,
453–54.
73
“In the course of years”:
Quoted in Jackson,
Melancholia,
190.
73
“psychomotor excitement”:
Kraepelin and Diefendorf,
Clinical Psychiatry,
381.
74
Gentlemen, the patient:
Kraepelin,
Lectures,
12.
75
Here is a case:
Ibid., 14–15.
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“numberless…cases of maniacal-depressive insanity”:
Ibid., 19.
76
The mildest form:
Kraepelin and Diefendorf,
Clinical Psychiatry
, 400–401.
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Georges Dreyfus:
Dreyfus,
Die Melancholie
. I have not been able to find an English version of this monograph. For a discussion of its particulars, see Hoch and MacCurdy, “The Prognosis of Involution Melancholia,” and Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 356.
77
It includes all the morbidly anxious states:
Kraepelin and Diefendorf,
Clinical Psychiatry,
348–49.
78
“one of the most frequent forms”:
Hoch and MacCurdy, “The Prognosis of Involution Melancholia,” 1.
78
“zeal outran his judgment”:
Ibid., 2–3.
78
Variations of the emotional status:
Ibid., 3.
78
“individual taste”:
Ibid., 16.
CHAPTER 5
Page
82
“She had been one of the sanest”:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 22–23. Also, Meyer, “Presidential Address,” 21.
82
he had wanted to stay on in Forel’s lab:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 21–22.
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an “old humbug”:
Ibid., 24.
83
His office was upstairs:
Ibid., 43–46.
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“hopelessly sunk into routine”:
Ibid., 47.
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their reasoning for diagnosis:
Ibid., 48.
85
“mind cannot be diseased”:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 5; see also Lidz, “Adolf Meyer and the Development of American Psychiatry,” 321.
85
“lasting wish”:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 51.
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Meyer met Jane Addams:
Ibid.
86
“accept the disposition”:
Ibid., 71.
86
“early prevention of danger”:
Ibid., 71–75.
87
“The human organism”:
Meyer, “Presidential Address,” 3.
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“Steering clear of useless puzzles”:
Lidz, “Adolf Meyer,” 326.
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his newfound pragmatism:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 546–47. Also Meyer, “Presidential Address.”
87
the job of psychiatrists:
Meyer, “Presidential Address.”
87
There he found his mother:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 83.
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“the supposed disease”:
Ibid., 174.
88
“neurologizing tautologies”:
Ibid., 381.
88
can we not use general principles:
Ibid., 156.
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“There is no advantage”:
Meyer, “The ‘Complaint’ as the Center of Genetic-Dynamic and Nosological Teaching,” 366.
89
to view the abnormal
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 136.
89
“The public here”
: Ibid., 57.
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“give us a clue for progress”
: Meyer, “A Few Demonstrations of the Pathology of the Brain,” 242.
90
a rearguard action
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 51.
90
neurologists had already cornered
: Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 114–19.
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“the list”
: Lutz,
American Nervousness,
19.
91
“insomnia, flushing, drowsiness”
: Beard,
American Nervousness,
7–8.
91
“modern civilization”
: Ibid., 96.
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“agnostic philosophy”
: Ibid., 123–25.
92
“Of our fifty millions”
: Ibid., 97.
92
Sooner or later
: Ibid., 99.
93
If a physician
: Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 1.
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“I have no confidence”
: Richardson,
William James,
400–401.
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it had “become marginal”
: Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 144.
94
“days when real science”
: Meyer, “Presidential Address,” 3.
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Psychiatry became real
: Ibid., 20–21.
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“The great mistake”
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 4.
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“commonsense psychiatry
”: Lidz, “Adolf Meyer,” 323.
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Kraepelin’s manic-depressive insanity
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 163.
96
“
constitutional depression”
: Jackson,
Melancholia and Depression
, 196–97.
97
There are conditions
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 175.
97
“normal depression”
: Jackson,
Melancholia and Depression
, 200.
98
“
the
person himself”
: Ibid.
98
“brain mythology”
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 134.
98
“the dominant figure”
: Zilboorg and Henry,
History of Medical Psychology
, 502–3.
98
The physician can offer
: Quoted in Jackson,
Melancholia and Depression
, 200.
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“a second-rate thinker”
: Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 111–12.
99
“acquiring a Main Street beachhead”
: Ibid., 161.
99
Give me a dozen healthy infants
: Watson,
Behaviorism
, 82.
100
And Bernays
: Lears, “From Salvation to Self-Realization,” 20.
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“therapeutic ethos”
: Ibid., 23.
100
the mental hygiene movement
: Beers,
The Mind That Found Itself
. For Meyer’s view, see Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 312. Also Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 161.
CHAPTER 6
Page
103
rejection sensitive
: See Kramer,
Listening to Prozac
, 67–77, 87–107.
