Psycho-Politics between the World Wars Psychiatry and Society in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland /

• Main Author: Freis, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
• Subjects: Europe, Central-History.; Medicine-History.; Social history.; World politics.; Psychiatry.; History of Germany and Central Europe.; History of Medicine.; Social History.; Political History.

'In this surprisingly fresh history of interwar psychiatry in the German-speaking countries, David Freis explores how the era's most prominent psychiatrists (Erwin Stransky, Emil Kraepelin, and Auguste Forel among others) transferred their diagnostic language from the clinic to society at...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Diagnosing the Revolution
• 3 Applyied Psychiatry in Inter-War Vienna
• 4 Expansionism and Interdisciplinarity: Applied Psychopathology in the Interwar Period
• 5 Psychiatric Prophylaxis and the Emergence of Mental Hygiene
• 6 The Rise and Fall of Mental Hygiene.