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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100190881194

ISBN-139780190881191

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Product Key Features

Number of Pages224 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameMadness of Fear : a History of Catatonia

SubjectEurope / Spain & Portugal, Psychiatry / General

Publication Year2018

TypeTextbook

AuthorEdward Shorter, Max Fink

Subject AreaHistory, Medical

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2017-047176

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Dewey Edition23

Reviews"I am extremely grateful for the very wise decision of Shorter and Fink to collaborate... I am convinced Shorter and Fink's book will become a classic." -- Jose de Leon, University of Kentucky College of Medicine "Shorter and Fink offer a probing, well-informed, and very readable account of the arcane theorizing and factional struggles by which psychiatrists hashed out a consensus on catatonia, schizophrenia, and other psychic ailments, one thats enriched with dozens of intriguing case studies ... The result is an engrossing portrait of a fearsome and fascinating disease, and a searching inquiry into the ways in which doctors misunderstand the mind." -- Kirkus "One expects to read a history book. But The Madness of Fear is so much more than that. [It] is an impressive piece of work that should be on the shelf of each psychiatrist... Shorter and Fink succeed in braiding the historic bits and pieces together to create a story that reads like a novel. An exciting one!" -- Journal of ECT, "I am extremely grateful for the very wise decision of Shorter and Fink to collaborate... I am convinced Shorter and Fink's book will become a classic." -- Jose de Leon, University of Kentucky College of Medicine"Shorter and Fink offer a probing, well-informed, and very readable account of the arcane theorizing and factional struggles by which psychiatrists hashed out a consensus on catatonia, schizophrenia, and other psychic ailments, one that's enriched with dozens of intriguing case studies ... The result is an engrossing portrait of a fearsome and fascinating disease, and a searching inquiry into the ways in which doctors misunderstand the mind." -- Kirkus"One expects to read a history book. But The Madness of Fear is so much more than that. [It] is an impressive piece of work that should be on the shelf of each psychiatrist... Shorter and Fink succeed in braiding the historic bits and pieces together to create a story that reads like a novel. An exciting one!" -- Journal of ECT, "One expects to read a history book. But The Madness of Fear is so much more than that. [It] is an impressive piece of work that should be on the shelf of each psychiatrist... Shorter and Fink succeed in braiding the historic bits and pieces together to create a story that reads like a novel. An exciting one!" -- Journal of ECT, "I am extremely grateful for the very wise decision of Shorter and Fink to collaborate... I am convinced Shorter and Fink's book will become a classic." -- Jose de Leon, University of Kentucky College of Medicine"Shorter and Fink offer a probing, well-informed, and very readable account of the arcane theorizing and factional struggles by which psychiatrists hashed out a consensus on catatonia, schizophrenia, and other psychic ailments, one that's enriched with dozens of intriguing case studies ... The result is an engrossing portrait of a fearsome and fascinating disease, and a searching inquiry into the ways in which doctors misunderstand the mind." --Kirkus"One expects to read a history book. But The Madness of Fear is so much more than that. [It] is an impressive piece of work that should be on the shelf of each psychiatrist... Shorter and Fink succeed in braiding the historic bits and pieces together to create a story that reads like a novel. An exciting one!" -- Journal of ECT, "Shorter and Fink offer a probing, well-informed, and very readable account of the arcane theorizing and factional struggles by which psychiatrists hashed out a consensus on catatonia, schizophrenia, and other psychic ailments, one that's enriched with dozens of intriguing case studies ... The result is an engrossing portrait of a fearsome and fascinating disease, and a searching inquiry into the ways in which doctors misunderstand the mind." -- Kirkus "One expects to read a history book. But The Madness of Fear is so much more than that. [It] is an impressive piece of work that should be on the shelf of each psychiatrist... Shorter and Fink succeed in braiding the historic bits and pieces together to create a story that reads like a novel. An exciting one!" -- Journal of ECT, "I am extremely grateful for the very wise decision of Shorter and Fink to collaborate... I am convinced Shorter and Fink's book will become a classic." -- Jose de Leon, University of Kentucky College of Medicine "Shorter and Fink offer a probing, well-informed, and very readable account of the arcane theorizing and factional struggles by which psychiatrists hashed out a consensus on catatonia, schizophrenia, and other psychic ailments, one that's enriched with dozens of intriguing case studies ... The result is an engrossing portrait of a fearsome and fascinating disease, and a searching inquiry into the ways in which doctors misunderstand the mind." -- Kirkus "One expects to read a history book. But The Madness of Fear is so much more than that. [It] is an impressive piece of work that should be on the shelf of each psychiatrist... Shorter and Fink succeed in braiding the historic bits and pieces together to create a story that reads like a novel. An exciting one!" -- Journal of ECT

Dewey Decimal616.89/8

Table Of ContentPreface 1. Introduction 2. Catatonia Before Kahlbaum 3. Karl Kahlbaum 4. Emil Kraepelin 5. Eugen Bleuler 6. Kidnapped! 7. Psychology 8. Delirious Mania and Febrile Catatonia 9. The Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome 10. Symptoms and Diagnoses 11. Catatonia in DSM-III and after 12. New Faces of Catatonia? 13. Treatments 14. L'Envoi Abbreviations Endnotes

SynopsisThis is the first-ever history of catatonia, a singular psychiatric illness featuring often bizarre disorders of mind and movement together with fearfulness and anxiety. Unlike most other psychiatric illnesses, it is eminently treatable, the symptoms vanishing as rapidly as they have come. For many years it was considered incorrectly as a "subtype" of schizophrenia., What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral chemistry, shouldn't we be able to specify how the various diseases present clinically? Catatonia is a human behavioral syndrome that for almost a century was buried in the poorly designated psychiatric concept of schizophrenia. Its symptoms are well-know, and some of them are serious. Catatonic patients may die as their temperatures accelerate; they become dehydrated because they refuse to drink; they risk inanition because they refuse to eat or move. Autistic children with catatonia may hit themselves repeatedly in the head. We don't really know what catatonia is, in the sense that we know what pneumonia is. But we can identify it, and it is eminently treatable. Clinicians can make these patients better on a reliable basis. There are few other disease entities in psychiatry of which this is true. So why has there been so little psychiatric interest in catatonia? Why is it simply not on the radar of most clinicians? Catatonia actually occurs in a number of other medical illnesses as well, but it is certainly not on the radar of most internists or emergency physicians. In The Madness of Fear , Drs. Shorter and Fink seek to understand why this "vast field of ignorance" exists. In the history of catatonia, they see a remarkable story about how medicine flounders, and then seems to find its way. And it may help doctors, and the public, to recognize catatonia as one of the core illnesses in psychiatry., What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral chemistry, shouldn't we be able to specify how the various diseases present clinically? Catatonia is a human behavioral syndrome that for almost a century was buried in the poorly designated psychiatric concept of schizophrenia. Its symptoms are well-know, and some of them are serious. Catatonic patients may die as their temperatures accelerate; they become dehydrated because they refuse to drink; they risk inanition because they refuse to eat or move. Autistic children with catatonia may hit themselves repeatedly in the head. We don't really know what catatonia is, in the sense that we know what pneumonia is. But we can identify it, and it is eminently treatable. Clinicians can make these patients better on a reliable basis. There are few other disease entities in psychiatry of which this is true. So why has there been so little psychiatric interest in catatonia? Why is it simply not on the radar of most clinicians? Catatonia actually occurs in a number of other medical illnesses as well, but it is certainly not on the radar of most internists or emergency physicians. In The Madness of Fear, Drs. Shorter and Fink seek to understand why this "vast field of ignorance" exists. In the history of catatonia, they see a remarkable story about how medicine flounders, and then seems to find its way. And it may help doctors, and the public, to recognize catatonia as one of the core illnesses in psychiatry., What are the real disease entities in psychiatry? This is a question that has bedeviled the study of the mind for more than a century yet it is low on the research agenda of psychiatry. Basic science issues such as neuroimaging, neurochemistry, and genetics carry the day instead. There is nothing wrong with basic science research, but before studying the role of brain circuits or cerebral chemistry, shouldn't we be able to specify how the various diseases presentclinically? Catatonia is a human behavioral syndrome that for almost a century was buried in the poorly designated psychiatric concept of schizophrenia. Its symptoms are well-know,and some of them are serious. Catatonic patients may die as their temperatures accelerate; they become dehydrated because they refuse to drink; they risk inanition because they refuse to eat or move. Autistic children with catatonia may hit themselves repeatedly in the head. We don't really know what catatonia is, in the sense that we know what pneumonia is. But we can identify it, and it is eminently treatable. Clinicians can make these patients better on a reliable basis. There are few otherdisease entities in psychiatry of which this is true. So why has there been so little psychiatric interest in catatonia? Why is it simply not on the radar of most clinicians?Catatonia actually occurs in a number of other medical illnesses as well, but it is certainly not on the radar of most internists or emergency physicians. In The Madness of Fear, Drs. Shorter and Fink seek to understand why this "vast field of ignorance" exists. In the history of catatonia, they see a remarkable story about how medicine flounders, and then seems to find its way. And it may help doctors, and the public, to recognize catatonia as one of the coreillnesses in psychiatry.

LC Classification NumberRC514