The transformation of the psyche in British primary care, 1880-1970

The transformation of the psyche in British primary care, 1880-1970 / Rhodri Hayward.

Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of how this psychological sensibility came to be established. Psychology and Medicine in Modern Britain will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is nothing i...

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Main Author: Hayward, Rhodri (Rhodri Lloyd)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Subjects:
Medicine and psychology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Medicine and psychology
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Unconscious; 1 Myths of origins; 2 A new approach; 3 The unconscious and the presence of the past; 4 From expectation to memory; 5 French experiments in psychological healing; 6 The uptake of psychological healing in British medical practice; 7 Popular literature and the new witchcraft; 8 Late Victorian psychotherapy; 9 Conclusion; Chapter 2 The Healing Power of History; 1 Psychology and the fabric of things; 2 General practice and the rise of the extended self.
  • 3 The forensic culture of the extended self4 Litigation, shock and the extended self; 5 The material culture of the extended self; 6 Electrophysiology and the extended self; 7 The extended self and World War I; 8 Psychological eclecticism; 9 Rival doxa: The Medical Society for Individual Psychology; 10 Institutional control of interpretation: The psychoanalytic establishment; 11 A new kind of doctor: A new kind of patient; 12 Arthur Watts and the making of the general practitioner psychiatrist; Chapter 3 The Social Consciousness; 1 The age of anxiety.
  • 2 Stephen Taylor and the case history of Mrs Everyman3 Suburban ethology; 4 Surveillance medicine and psychiatric morbidity; 5 Making social pathology visible: The Peckham Experiment; 6 'My God Everyone's in Hospital': The emergence of the psychosocial; 7 Doctors of society: Psychological reconstruction and World War II; 8 The National Health Service and the new psychiatry; 9 Harlow: A socio-psychiatric experiment; 10 The reflexive logic of the psychiatric survey; Chapter 4 The Anxiety of Influence; 1 Medicine and the art of living; 2 Imagining influence.

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