A Critical History of Schizophrenia

McNally, Kieran

doi:10.1057/9781137456816

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“…The concept of schizophrenia was originally formulated by Eugen Bleuler, who, drawing on Emil Kraepelin's dementia praecox, used the term to reference a group of diseases or psychoses. 35 Bleuler argued that the name schizophrenia was a useful alternative to Kraepelin's dementia praecox. Over the years, the term schizophrenia has gradually replaced the term dementia praecox in Norwegian textbooks.…”

Section: Qualitative Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Textbook descriptions of people with psychosis – some ethical aspects

Fredwall

Larsen

2018

Nurs Ethics

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Background: Textbooks are central for the education of professionals in the health field and a resource for practitioners already in the field. Objectives: This article focuses on how 12 textbooks in psychiatric nursing and psychiatry, published in Norway between 1877 and 2012, describe and present people with psychosis. Research design: We used qualitative content analysis. Ethical considerations: The topic is published textbooks, made available to be read by students, teachers and professionals, and no ethical approval was required. Findings: The analysis shows that all 12 textbooks describe and present people who are considered as psychotic from a 'perspective from above'. In this perspective, the readers are learning about psychosis in the professional's language and from the author's viewpoint. Most often the textbooks communicate a universal image of people with psychosis, a description that fits with the diagnostic criteria. The analysis also shows that two textbooks in psychiatric nursing combined this perspective with a 'perspective from within'. Here, the readers are learning about psychosis from the patients' own viewpoint. The authors communicate a personal, psychotic universe that differs from various people, even if they have the same diagnosis, and the descriptions are focusing on the patient as a whole person. Discussion and conclusion: Drawing partly on Rita Charon's writings about narrative knowledge in the health field, and partly on insights from Martha Nussbaum and her concept of narrative imagination, we argue that mental health professionals need to learn about, understand and fathom what patients go through by reading, listening to and acknowledging the patients' own stories and experiences. Cultivating the capacity for empathy and compassion are at the very heart of moral performance in the mental health field. A valuable moral resource in that regard is leading textbooks and how they describe and present people with severe mental illness.

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Section: Qualitative Content Analysismentioning

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Textbook descriptions of people with psychosis – some ethical aspects

Fredwall

Larsen

2018

Nurs Ethics

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“…There are a number of good historical, anthropological and sociological analyses of the changing phenomena that have been labelled as schizophrenia across the twentieth century. (Woods, 2011;McNally, 2016;Noll, 1992;2011;Barrett, 1996;Garrabé, 2003;Guillemain, 2018;Bernet, 2013) Most of this scholarship focused on the changing representations of both schizophrenia and the people concerned: which symptoms defined schizophrenia and schizophrenic patients; what sort of person these were. By contrast the question that interests me in this article is the ways in which clinicians identified the disorder they were calling schizophrenia.…”

Section: Infrastructures Of Schizophrenia: Transforming Psychiatric Dmentioning

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Schizophrenia Infrastructures: Local and Global Dynamics of Transformation in Psychiatric Diagnosis-Making in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Henckes

2019

Cult Med Psychiatry

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This article uses the concept of infrastructures of diagnosis to propose a framework for telling the history of schizophrenia as a global entity in the twentieth century. Infrastructures of diagnosis include the material and architectural arrangements, legal prescriptions and professional models that organize the way patients come to clinics and navigate in the world of schizophrenia, as well as clinicians organize their diagnostic work. They organize the way schizophrenia was identified as a disorder. The article then explores three moments in the history of the infrastructures of the diagnosis of schizophrenia in the twentieth century. The first is German psychiatrist Kurt Schneider's discussion of first and second rank symptoms in the interwar period. The second is the work on the criteria for defining schizophrenia in the framework of the WHO International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia at the turn of the 1970s. The last moment concerns recent discussions on deconstructing psychosis the in the framework of the development of the fifth edition of DSM.

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“…The diagnostic signs continually mutated. ‘Schizophrenia’ remained a heavy name, light on any consistent meaning (McNally, ). Bannister () called schizophrenia, ‘a semantic Titanic, doomed before it sails; a concept so diffuse as to be unnameable’ (p. 72).…”

Section: Schizophreniamentioning

confidence: 99%

Systemic Therapy and the Unbearable Lightness of Psychiatry

Stagoll

2017

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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This article is based on a transcript of the 2016 David Ingamells Memorial Lecture, at the Melbourne Clinic, sponsored by the Faculty of Psychotherapy of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry. David was a leader in family therapy in Melbourne in the 1980s and ‘90s. Being invited to give this lecture led me to reflect on 50 years in psychiatry, and how systemic views have evolved over this time. Where did our foundational visions of social psychiatry come from, and where did they lead? How do our original heroes Laing and Bateson look nowadays? How has the concept of schizophrenia changed, and where does the DSM fit in? How can we move beyond the dominant ‘neuro‐molecular narrative’ and reconcile it with psychotherapy and ‘a social view of health?’

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A Critical History of Schizophrenia

Cited by 15 publications

References 10 publications

Textbook descriptions of people with psychosis – some ethical aspects

Textbook descriptions of people with psychosis – some ethical aspects

Schizophrenia Infrastructures: Local and Global Dynamics of Transformation in Psychiatric Diagnosis-Making in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Systemic Therapy and the Unbearable Lightness of Psychiatry

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