American Madness

The Rise and Fall of Dementia Praecox

Richard Noll

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$54.50 • £43.95 • €49.00

ISBN 9780674047396

Publication Date: 11/28/2011

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408 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Introduction
1. The World of the American Alienist, 1896
2. Adolf Meyer Brings Dementia Praecox to America
3. Emil Kraepelin
4. The American Reception of Dementia Praecox and Manic Depressive Insanity, 1896–1905
5. The Lost Biological Psychiatry
6. The Rise of the Mind Twist Men, 1903–1913
7. Bayard Taylor Holmes and Radically Rational Treatments
8. The Rise of Schizophrenia in America, 1912–1927
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Awards & Accolades

Highly Commended, Psychiatry Category, 2012 BMA Medical Book Awards, British Medical Association

2012 Cheiron Book Prize, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral & Social Sciences

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