Moral Insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of Psychiatry
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Jones, D. 2017. Moral Insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of Psychiatry. History of Psychiatry. 28 (3), pp. 263-279. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17702316
Authors | Jones, D. |
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Abstract | This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related the diagnoses of ‘monomania’ and ‘manie sans delire’) to the development of psychiatry as a profession in the 19th 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. |
Journal | History of Psychiatry |
Journal citation | 28 (3), pp. 263-279 |
ISSN | 0957-154X |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Publisher's version | License |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17702316 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X17702316 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 10 Apr 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 20 Jul 2016 |
Accepted | 08 Jul 2016 |
Accepted | 08 Jul 2016 |
Funder | Economic and Social Research Council |
Economic and Social Research Council | |
Copyright information | Jones, David W., Moral Insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of Psychiatry, History of Psychiatry, 28(3): Copyright © 2017 The author. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
License | CC BY 4.0 |
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