Making minds and madness : from hysteria to depression

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Title:

Author:

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel.

ISBN:

9780521716888

9780521888639

Personal Author:

Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel.

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

x, 266 p. ; 26 cm.

Contents:

How to predict the past : from trauma to repression -- Neurotica : Freud and the seduction theory -- A black box named "Sybil" -- What made Albert run? -- The Bernheim effect -- Simulating the unconscious -- Is psychoanalysis a fairy-tale? -- Interprefactions : Freud's legendary science / in collaboration with Sonu Shamdasani -- Portrait of the psychoanalyst as a chameleon -- Science of madness, madness of science -- The great depression -- Psychotherapy today -- Therapy users and disease mongers.

Subject Term:

Psychotherapy.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalytic Theory -- Collected Works.

History, 20th Century -- Collected Works.

Psychiatry -- history -- Collected Works.

Psychotherapeutic Processes -- Collected Works.

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Summary

Why do 'maladies of the soul' such as hysteria, anxiety disorders, or depression wax and wane over time? Through a study of the history of psychiatry, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provocatively argues that most mental illnesses are not, in fact, diseases but the product of varying expectations shared and negotiated by therapists and patients. With a series of fascinating historical vignettes, stretching from Freud's creation of false memories of sexual abuse in his early hysterical patients to today's promotion and marketing of depression by drug companies, Making Minds and Madness offers a powerful critique of all the theories, such as psychoanalysis and biomedical psychiatry, that claim to discover facts about the human psyche while, in reality, producing them. Borch-Jacobsen proposes such objectivizing approaches should be abandoned in favor of a constructionist and relativist psychology that recognizes the artifactual and interactive character of psychic productions instead of attempting to deny or control it.