PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: John D. Rockefeller, Society For Biodemography And Social Biology, Eugenics Record Office
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Asylum psychiatry and the putative increase in severe mental illness. The beginning of university psychiatry and biological research on mental illness. Ascendance of the clinical/descriptive method of kraepelin. The rise of minor mental illness (cid:523)i. e. , (cid:498)the psychoanalytic (iatus(cid:499)(cid:524) Established modern psychiatric department in 1865 at charite hospital in berlin. Founded archive for psychiatry and nervous diseases in 1867. Thomas kuhn in (cid:498)the structure of scientific revolutions(cid:499) sciences cycle between two phases: 1) normal science, 2) scientific revolution. Normal science refers to phases of (cid:498)continuity(cid:499) The term (cid:498)the first biological psychiatry(cid:499) implies discontinuity. However, research in biological psychiatry is a continuous progression from the mid. The (cid:498)first biological psychiatry(cid:499) more accurately refers to research ca (cid:853)(cid:860)(cid:857)(cid:852) 1900 that had two principal subjects: 1) heredity, 2) neuroanatomy. The idea that genetic disorders get worse as they pass through successive generations. Widely accepted idea in 19th century: insanity is the end stage of the degenerative process. Morel and others proposed a degenerative sequence:
