Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry.
Moral insanity and psychological disorder: the hybrid roots of psychiatry.
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DOI：
10.1177/0957154x17702316
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发表时间：
2017-09
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0.6
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Jones DW
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作者：
Jones DW
本文追溯了“道德精神错乱”的诊断（以及相关的“偏执狂”和“躁狂症”的诊断）对世纪精神病学作为一种职业的发展的意义。精神病学思想的先驱们之所以有动力探索这种诊断，是因为它们承诺在刑事法庭的高地位环境中得到公众的认可。在介绍一种专门知识方面取得了一些成功，这种专门知识集中在专家能够在法国和更广泛的英国发现罪犯头脑中相当微妙的“心理”形式的危险疯狂。新闻界对这些新观点的强烈反对，使这一专业远离了这种心理学探索，回到了其医学根源，即犯罪性精神病仅仅存在于患者的有机构成中。
This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related diagnoses of ‘monomania’ and ‘manie sans délire’) to the development of psychiatry as a profession in the nineteenth century. The pioneers of psychiatric thought were motivated to explore such diagnoses because they promised public recognition in the high status surroundings of the criminal court. Some success was achieved in presenting a form of expertise that centred on the ability of the experts to detect quite subtle, ‘psychological’ forms of dangerous madness within the minds of offenders in France and more extensively in England. Significant backlash in the press against these new ideas pushed the profession away from such psychological exploration and back towards its medical roots that located criminal insanity simply within the organic constitution of its sufferers.