In comparison to other questions related to nationalism (for example, is nationalism more a pre‐modern or modern phenomenon? Is it more of a political or ethno‐cultural nature?), relatively little attention has been devoted to the question of whether nationalism is more rational or irrational. Weber's definition of instrumentally rational and value‐rational action has been used in this analysis to determine to what extent nationalism is rational or irrational. The analysis has focused mainly on those concepts of nationalism and those phenomena associated with nationalism that are predominantly irrational or extra‐rational. Some psychological and anthropological constants constitute the irrational (extra‐rational) side of nationalism. Nationalism as a Janus‐faced phenomenon comprises the irrational (extra‐rational) and the rational. The rational and irrational overlap quite profoundly in numerous manifestations of nationalist behaviour.
Aims and methodHistorical trends in the conceptual domains underlying articles published in psychiatric journals are indicators of major psychiatric concerns and practices. Articles in The American Journal of Psychiatry and The British Journal of Psychiatry during the periods 1947–51, 1967–71 and 2002–6 were classified into either a biomedical, psychological or social conceptual domain to determine which domains, if any, were dominant.ResultsIn The American Journal of Psychiatry one or two domains were dominant for two of the three periods. No domain was dominant in The British Journal of Psychiatry.Clinical implicationsExamined against various scientific and social developments, American psychiatry appears more responsive to current social, scientific and commercial trends and impulses than British psychiatry.
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