The critics have questioned both the assumption that there is a distinctive group of illnesses
of the mind, and the relevance of medical expertise, with its focus on the body, to the …

IN THE preface to his autobiography, l Dr. White remarked" when we look about us and see
the confusion that the world is in at the present moment, see the antagonisms that are …

Exploring the field of mental illnesses, both in modern psychiatry and antiquity, means
attempting to penetrate an extremely fluctuating domain where even the definition of illness …

This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists, including Laing,
Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and Bassaglia, that has made fashionable the view that mental …

This chapter refers the term" psychiatric body" to mean materialist mental medicine. It uses
the term in two senses: to denote the behavioral aspects of the human brain as a bodily …

Because most psychiatric illnesses are complex phenomena, no single method or approach
is sufficient to explain them or the experiences of persons who suffer from them. In The …

Although the United States and other industrialized and urbanized nations are increasing
their utilization of mental health services, psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, and …

General Theoretical Survey The history of medicine has always been intimately involved
with the philosophic destiny of the ideas about the interrelations of mind and body. The …

Abstract The role of William Alanson White in the last four decades of American psychiatry
was great indeed. To most of his students, the Professor was American psychiatry and a …

This book constitutes the second issue of the Thomas W. Salmon Memorial Lectures. The
introduction sketches in particular the historical significance of the work of Pinel and …