Pathologist of the Mind : Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Pathology as Method: Adolf Meyer's Vision for a Clinical Science of Psychiatry -- 2 Mind as Biology: Adolf Meyer's Concept of Psychobiology -- 3 Unique Soil in Baltimore: The Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital -- 4 The Baptismal Child of American Psychiatry: The Meyerian Case History -- 5 A Wonderful Center for Mental Orthopedics: Adolf Meyer's Therapeutic Experiment -- 6 Subconscious Adaptation: Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Meyerian Psychiatry -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Illustrations follow pages 98 and 160.

The first historian ever granted access to these exceptional medical records, Lamb offers a compelling new perspective on the integral but misunderstood legacy of Adolf Meyer.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.