Localization and its discontents : a genealogy of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines

Author/Creator:

Guenther, Katja, author

Publication/Creation:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Localization and its discontents : a genealogy of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines / Katja Guenther

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Electronic books

Subjects:

Psychiatry--History
Neurology--History
Neurosciences--History
Psychoanalysis--History
Psychoanalysis--history
Neuropsychiatry--history
Neurosurgery--history
Neurosciences--history
Brain--physiology
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction -- In the morgue: Theodor Meynert, pathological anatomy, and the social structure of dissection -- In the lecture theater: reflex and diagnosis in Carl Wernicke's Krankenvorstellungen -- On the couch: Sigmund Freud, reflex therapy, and the beginnings of psychoanalysis -- In the exercise hall: Otfrid Foerster, neurological gymnastics, and the surgery of motor function -- Between hospital and psychoanalytic setting: Paul Schilder and American psychiatry, or how to do psychoanalysis without the unconscious -- In the operating room: Wilder Penfield's stimulation reports and the discovery of "mind."

Summary:

"Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus--the scalpel, the electrode--to probe the workings of the nervous system, and in so doing have radically reshaped our understanding of the brain. Both operate in vastly different institutional and cultural contexts. Given these differences, it is remarkable that both fields found resources for their development in the same tradition of late nineteenth-century German medicine: neuropsychiatry. In Localization and Its Discontents, Katja Guenther investigates the significance of this common history, drawing on extensive archival research in seven countries, institutional analysis, and close examination of the practical conditions of scientific and clinical work. Her remarkable accomplishment not only reframes the history of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines, but also offers us new ways of thinking about their future."--Provided by publisher.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936648820402486

ISBN:

9780226288345
022628834X

OCLC Number:

929015473