Thomas Verner Moore

Noll, Richard; DeYoung, Colin G.; Kendler, Kenneth S.

doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2017.17030248

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“…His books included Dynamic Psychology (Moore, 1924) and Cognitive Psychology (Moore, 1939). He championed factor analysis (Noll, DeYoung, & Kendler, 2017), and he published works on ethics and spiritual development as well.…”

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The theory and practice of Thomas Verner Moore’s Catholic psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Kugelmann¹

2019

History of Psychology

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Thomas Verner Moore , a Catholic priest, psychologist, and psychiatrist, developed a Catholic psychiatry in the first half of the 20th century. Following a brief description of Moore's life, this article develops his psychiatric theory, beginning with its grounding in Thomistic philosophical thought. The relationship between reason and faith, the place of the soul in psychological theory, and a central role for Catholic moral teaching were three Thomistic principles vital to Moore's thinking. Defining psychology as the science of personality, and the study of personality as central to psychiatry, Moore articulated a theory and practice of psychotherapy that he contended was scientifically sound. Although his clinical work did not impose religious teachings on patients, if such teachings were meaningful to them, he did discuss them in sessions; moreover, Catholic moral teaching was a compass in his treatment of patients. The article includes a brief history of the psychiatric clinic that Moore first established in 1916 and its successor.

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The theory and practice of Thomas Verner Moore’s Catholic psychiatry and psychotherapy.

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2019

History of Psychology

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“…Rating scales for both psychosis-proneness and psychosis have a long history, much of it forgotten because its literature was largely uncited by others in a Meyerian and Freudian era in which the containment of subjectivity by numbers was ‘disparaged as “undynamic”’ and descriptive psychopathology was dismissed as ‘sterile, outmoded, and unimportant’ (Lorr, Klett and McNair, 1963: 7). This history – which begins with the first forms for rating psychotic symptoms created by Anton Boisen in 1925 (see Powell, 1977) and Thomas Verner Moore (1933; for context see Noll, DeYoung and Kendler, 2017) – marks a key component of the transformation of the scientific self of American psychiatrists through attempts to impose knowledges generated by the statistical and experimental methods of the public sphere of medicine on the everyday practices of medicine in the private sphere (Noll, 2016b).…”

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Feeling and smelling psychosis

Noll

2018

History of the Human Sciences

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Some limitations of ‘category work’ in the history of psychiatry are illustrated via the example of attempts within US alienism and psychiatry since 1889 to identify psychosis and its prodromes. A slowly evolving acceptance of the need for specifiable biological disease concepts, distinct diagnostic categories and defined boundaries of the ‘before and after’ of psychosis among some elite physicians challenged widespread vernacular methods of diagnosis expressed as intuition, feelings or scent as well as local practices of creating novel placeholder terms ‘as needed’ or using question marks to express liminality or confusion. When ‘error of diagnosis’ emerged as a concern circa 1909, the professional transformation of this ‘scientific self of subjectivity’ of the psychiatrist into a ‘scientific self of objectivity’ eventually resulted in the turn to numerical judgments based on rating scales for psychotic symptoms. However, rating scales do not ‘count’ anything at all and exist as instruments of liminality between subjective clinical opinion and the affection of objectivity that quantification symbolizes.

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Historical Perspectives on the History of Measurement in Psychiatry

Aboraya

2022

Advances in Mental Health and Addiction

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Thomas Verner Moore

Cited by 4 publications

References 6 publications

The theory and practice of Thomas Verner Moore’s Catholic psychiatry and psychotherapy.

The theory and practice of Thomas Verner Moore’s Catholic psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Feeling and smelling psychosis

Historical Perspectives on the History of Measurement in Psychiatry

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