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Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry
This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related diagnoses of ‘monomania’ and ‘manie sans délire’) to the development of psychiatry as a profession in the nineteenth century. The pioneers of psychiatric thought were motivated to explore such diagnoses because...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28391708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17702316 |
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description | This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related diagnoses of ‘monomania’ and ‘manie sans délire’) to the development of psychiatry as a profession in the nineteenth century. The pioneers of psychiatric thought were motivated to explore such diagnoses because they promised public recognition in the high status surroundings of the criminal court. Some success was achieved in presenting a form of expertise that centred on the ability of the experts to detect quite subtle, ‘psychological’ forms of dangerous madness within the minds of offenders in France and more extensively in England. Significant backlash in the press against these new ideas pushed the profession away from such psychological exploration and back towards its medical roots that located criminal insanity simply within the organic constitution of its sufferers. |
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spelling | pubmed-55464202017-08-23 Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry Jones, David W Hist Psychiatry Articles This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related diagnoses of ‘monomania’ and ‘manie sans délire’) to the development of psychiatry as a profession in the nineteenth century. The pioneers of psychiatric thought were motivated to explore such diagnoses because they promised public recognition in the high status surroundings of the criminal court. Some success was achieved in presenting a form of expertise that centred on the ability of the experts to detect quite subtle, ‘psychological’ forms of dangerous madness within the minds of offenders in France and more extensively in England. Significant backlash in the press against these new ideas pushed the profession away from such psychological exploration and back towards its medical roots that located criminal insanity simply within the organic constitution of its sufferers. SAGE Publications 2017-04-10 2017-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5546420/ /pubmed/28391708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17702316 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title_full | Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry |
title_fullStr | Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry |
title_full_unstemmed | Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry |
title_short | Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry |
title_sort | moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5546420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28391708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17702316 |
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