Body and Mind
An Inquiry into their Connection and Mutual Influence, Specially in Reference to Mental Disorders
Published on 7. September 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-1-108-08030-9 (ISBN)
Description
Yorkshireman Henry Maudsley (1835-1918) studied and built his medical career in London. From 1860 he specialised in psychiatry, working at hospitals and in private practice, and from 1863 to 1878 he was joint editor of the Journal of Mental Science. As one of the leading European 'alienists', he treated high-profile patients and became sufficiently wealthy to contribute GBP30,000 in 1907 towards the foundation of a specialist psychiatric hospital. In his many publications, he developed ideas of heredity derived from Darwin. His lecturing style was famous; Body and Mind contains his 1870 Gulstonian lectures, given before the Royal College of Physicians, and two earlier articles. Maudsley aimed to 'bring man, both in his physical and mental relations, as much as possible within the scope of scientific enquiry', and his preface dismisses 'vague and barren disputations concerning materialism and spiritualism' as futile compared to serious scientific enquiry based on physiology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
303 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-08030-9 (9781108080309)
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Content
Preface; 1. On the physical condition of mental function in health; 2. On certain forms of degeneracy of mind, their causation, and their relations to other disorders of the nervous system; 3. On the relations of morbid bodily states to disordered mental functions; Appendix.