Psychiatry After Kraepelin: Ambition Images Practices 1926-2026

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ISBN13: 9783032094742
Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Springer
Publisher Imprint: Springer
Publication Date: March 13, 2026
Pages: 529
Original Price: EUR 54.49
Language: English
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Item Weight: 1075 grams
BISAC Subject(s): Psychiatry / General

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Advance Reviews.- Table of Contents.- Acknowledgments.- Author biographies of all authors.- Foreword: Emil Kraepelin and his legacy.- Introduction: Psychiatry after Kraepelin and beyond.- Part A- Emil Kraepelin.- 1. Emil Kraepelin, Wilhelm Wundt and Leipzig University: Short-term stay, long-term impact.- 2. Kraepelin and the development of Physical Treatments in Psychiatry.- 3. Beyond conceptual history: Emil Kraepelin's, Karl Jaspers' and Arthur Kronfeld's views on psychiatry may not only inform, but also guide our present-day debate.- Part B- After Darwin: Biology in the Evolution of Psychiatry.- 4. Degeneration and eugenics.- 5. Evolutionary Psychiatry before, during and after Kraepelin and his times.- 6. A Genetic Perspective on Kraepelin’s Nosology.- 7. Brain imaging in schizophrenia.- Part C- Psychiatric Diagnosis: Concepts and Challenges.- 8. From Dementia Praecox to Autoimmune Psychosis Diagnostic challenges of the schizophrenias.- 9. The origins of invention and its link with autism.- 10. Political Ideology, Collective Emotions and Diagnosis in Psychiatry.- 11. The Continental Philosophical Psychiatric Tradition and the Dialectics of Madness.- 12. Mad People and Mad Studies.- Part D- Image, Imagination and Experience.- 13. Adverse Childhood Experiences and Brain Development.- 14. Imagi(ni)ng the brain in psychiatry.- 15. The self in neuroscience and psychiatry.- 16. Images for psychiatry: from the conceptual description of symptoms and "Clinical forms", through the search for structural units of meaningful "Forms of life", to images as "Forms of Pathos".- 17. “Sheer space”, “Elvenspace”, the Ghost Choir of time and “Thymic space”: A Trilogue to Understand Space “Oddities” in Schizophrenia.- Part E- Mental Health Services: Reality and Ambition.- 18. Emil Kraepelin’s Influence in India.- 19. Soviet Psychiatry: the Stalin Years.- 20. Yugoslav Psychiatry in the Middle: Non-aligned and Post-Colonial Psychiatry during the Cold War.- 21. Ideas, Theories and Psychiatric Services: De-institutionalisation and Community Care in Italy, the UK and Germany since 1960.- 22. Latin American Psychiatry Reform and the WHO Mental Health Office.- Part F- Psychiatry and Mental Health Services Today and Tomorrow.- 23. Emil Kraepelin and Biological Research in Psychiatry Today.- 24. What does research tell us about peer support, its strengths, and potential risks?.- 25. Beyond Kraepelin: An Aetiological Approach to the Typology and Treatment of Psychosis.- 26. The Best Psychiatry in the World? Ambition and Achievement in Denmark.- 27. Doing Justice: Psychiatry as a Vocation.- Afterword.

About The Author

George Ikkos is Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital UK and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He is immediate past Chair of the College's History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group and was President of the Royal Society of Medicine Psychiatry section and first Director of the section's "Psychiatry in Dialogue with Medicine, Neuroscience and Society" programme.

Thomas Becker is Senior Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Leipzig University Medical Center. His interest is in theoretical aspects of mental health reform and social psychiatry, and his long-term research interest (at University of Ulm) has been in mental health services research and psychosocial interventions.

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