Inquiries in Psychiatry (Psychology Revivals): Clinical and Social Investigations

ISBN-13: 9780415826716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 336 str.

Aubrey Lewis

Opis

To mark his retirement in 1966 from the Professorship of Psychiatry at the University of London, and the directorship of the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital, Professor Lewis s students edited and prepared an edition of his collected papers, in two volumes.

Originally published in 1967 this volume reports the outcome of research in a variety of fields. Of the numerous clinical investigations, those into depressive states are dealt with most fully. Social studies, which had been the main concern of the Medical Research Council Unit of which Professor Lewis was for seventeen years Honorary Director, deals with themes of unemployment, environmental adjustment, and ecology. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Spis treści

Introduction  Acknowledgments  Clinical Psychiatry  1 The experience of time in mental disorder  2 The psychopathology of insight  3 Melancholia: a clinical survey of depressive states  4 Melancholia: a prognostic study  5 States of depression: their clinical and aetiological differentiation  6 Problems of obsessional illness  7 Obsessional illness  8 A study of cretinism in London  9 Aspects of psychosomatic medicine  Social Psychiatry  10 Neurosis and unemployment  11 Social causes of admission to a mental hospital for the aged  12 Vocational aspects of neurosis in soldiers  13 Social psychiatry  14 The offspring of parents both mentally ill  15 Fertility and mental illness  16 Demographic aspects of mental disorder  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Sir Aubrey Lewis Retired Professorship of Psychiatry at the University of London, and thedirectorship of the Institute of Psychiatry, the Maudsley Hospital.