{"product_id":"pathologist-of-the-mind-9781421425139","title":"Pathologist of the Mind","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIlluminating the contributions of Adolf Meyer, the pioneering father of modern American psychiatry.   Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLDuring the first half of the twentieth century, Adolf Meyer was the most authoritative and influential psychiatrist in the United States. In 1908, when the Johns Hopkins Hospital established the first American university clinic devoted to psychiatrystill a nascent medical specialty at the timeMeyer was selected to oversee the enterprise. The Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic opened in 1913, and Meyer served as psychiatrist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins until 1941. In Pathologist of the Mind, S. D. Lamb explores how Meyer used his powerful position to establish psychiatry as a clinical science that operated like the other specialties at the country's foremost medical school and research hospital. In addition to successfully arguing for a scientific and biological approach to mental illness, Meyer held extraordinary sway over st\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFortunately for anyone wishing to learn about Meyer's ideas and their influence, Lamb, a historian, has mined his unpublished papers and correspondence for the truths that became opaque when he turned them into essays. Crucially, she has also read more than 1,800 of the meticulous patient records that Meyer and his staff created at the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, which reveal him at work as a clinician and teacher. These she presents as the key to understanding how he created an American psychiatry with his ideas at its center. The result is a tutorial in Meyer's psychobiology, and a fascinating look at patients' experiences, their suffering, and treatment in the early 20th century.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePsycCRITIQUES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this fascinating study, Lamb examines Meyer's efforts to establish psychiatry as a clinical science and subdiscipline of biology . . . This book is a medical historian's dream.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFull of interesting information on how Dr. Adolf Meyer, a Swiss neurologist and psychiatrist, set the basis for modern psychiatry in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eMetapsychology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Lamb] aims to give us a more detailed and rounded portrait of Meyer's life and career.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome books are worth underlining every sentence. \u003ci\u003ePathologist of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e is one of them.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePsychiatric Services\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLamb’s intellectual and professional biography will inevitably stimulate further historical research on Adolf Meyer’s influence on American psychiatry.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIsis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePathologist of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e clarifies Meyerian notions of psychobiology, psychotherapy, and evolutionary theory (among others) and places this important figure, as well as the hospital and area of specialty to which he was dedicated, into historical context. In impressively detailed fashion, the book brings the man and the era to life.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eCheiron Book Prize Citation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[D]eeply researched, judiciously argued and succeeds in making he nature of Meyer's contribution more intelligible.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLamb successfully revives and humanizes Meyer as a meaningful character in the unfolding drama of American psychiatry.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHistory of Psychiatry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLamb's descriptions of patient-staff enounters offer insights not generally found in traditional histories.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Pathology as Method\u003cbr\u003e2. Mind as Biology\u003cbr\u003e3. Unique Soil in Baltimore\u003cbr\u003e4. The Baptismal Child of American Psychiatry\u003cbr\u003e5. A Wonderful Center for Mental Orthopedics\u003cbr\u003e6. Subconscious Adaptation\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408125010263,"sku":"9781421425139","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pathologist-of-the-mind-9781421425139","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}