Inside the Maudsley Child Psychotic Clinic in the 1950s

Evans, Bonnie

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“…The patient groups seen by psychiatrists and neurologists (and later by psychologists) were, moreover, hardly easily characterized, the question of the etiology of mental illness was rarely raised, and treatments were wide-ranging and of questionable efficacy. Talk therapy, education and training, asylum management, tranquilizers and stimulants, insulin, and malarial shock therapies largely constituted the available regimens (Pressman 1998; Shorter and Healy 2007; Evans 2011).…”

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“…However, hysteria, the best example, was a clinical diagnosis that had practically disappeared by 1940 (a point acknowledged by Hathaway 1971; but see Micale 1993). Categories like “psychopathic deviate” and “schizophrenia,” as Bonnie Evans (2011) has shown, had equally varied acceptance and interpretation by psychiatrists and clinical psychologists. The most likely conjecture is that McKinley and Hathaway, perhaps in consultation with A.…”

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Of Psychometric Means: Starke R. Hathaway and the Popularization of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Schilling¹,

Casper²

2015

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The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was developed at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in the 1930s and 1940s. It became a highly successful and highly controversial psychometric tool. In professional terms, psychometric tools such as the MMPI transformed psychology and psychiatry. Psychometric instruments thus readily fit into the developmental history of psychology, psychiatry, and neurology; they were a significant part of the narrative of those fields' advances in understanding, intervening, and treating people with mental illnesses. At the same time, the advent of such tools also fits into a history of those disciplines that records the rise of obsessional observational and evaluative techniques and technologies in order to facilitate patterns of social control that became typical during the Progressive Era in the United States and after. It was those patterns that also nurtured the resistance to psychometrics that emerged during the Vietnam War and after.

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Section: Both Means and Measures: The Development Of The Mmpi Reconsimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Both Means and Measures: The Development Of The Mmpi Reconsimentioning

confidence: 99%

Of Psychometric Means: Starke R. Hathaway and the Popularization of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Schilling¹,

Casper²

2015

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Inside the Maudsley Child Psychotic Clinic in the 1950s

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Of Psychometric Means: Starke R. Hathaway and the Popularization of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Of Psychometric Means: Starke R. Hathaway and the Popularization of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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