Eric J Engstrom
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 516274 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Eric J Engstrom |
| NOMBRES | Eric J |
| APELLIDO | Engstrom |
| FIRMA | ENGSTROM E J |
| AFILIACIONES | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8235-3867 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Politics of Interdictive Jurisprudence
The article investigates the psychological evaluations (so-called Gemütszustandsuntersuchungen ) that were used in legal interdiction proceedings at Berlin’s district courts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The evaluations were undertaken in order to help judges decide whether or not individuals—usually, but not always feeble-minded or mentally ill ones—should be placed under legal guardianship. The following themes are addre…
Classic Text No. 136 ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’, by Harry Marcuse (1926)
In his article ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’ (1926), Harry Marcuse (1876–1931) undertook a thought experiment in which he challenged clinical psychiatrists to entertain the possibility that the concept of unitary psychosis could be a useful diagnostic and nosological tool. Drawing on the psychology of Friedrich Jodl (1849–1914) and contemporary notions of energeticism, Marcuse proposed a non-empirical, ‘analytic’ method of overcoming gro…
Race, alcohol and general paralysis
This article examines Emil Kraepelin’s notion of comparative psychiatry and relates it to the clinical research he conducted at psychiatric hospitals in South-East Asia (1904) and the USA (1925). It argues that his research fits awkwardly within the common historiographic narratives of colonial psychiatry. It also disputes claims that his work can be interpreted meaningfully as the fons et origio of transcultural psychiatry. Instead, it argues th…
Timothy E. Pytell. Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning
In Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning Timothy E. Pytell has written an intellectual biography of the Auschwitz survivor and existentialist whose bestselling Holocaust testimony, Man’s Search for Meaning (1946), and popularized brand of logotherapeutic psychoanalysis made him one of the most prominent psychotherapists of the twentieth century. Frankl’s logotherapy represented an attempt to expand the reach of psychotherapy beyond physical and psyc…
Emil Kraepelin’s Inaugural Lecture in Dorpat
In his inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Dorpat in 1886, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin presented one of the most concise accounts of the state of psychiatric research in the late nineteenth century. In his lecture, Kraepelin criticized the patho-anatomic research of contemporary neuropsychiatrists and argued that psychiatric research needed to be augmented by a new emphasis on experimental psychology. This article explores…
Tempering Madness
This essay examines some of the research practices and strategies that the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) deployed in his efforts to account for the significance of emotions in psychiatric illnesses. After briefly surveying Kraepelin’s understanding of emotions and providing some historical context for his work in the late nineteenth century, it examines three different approaches that he took to studying emotions. First, it discu…
The Mind of the Nation
These books represent important contributions to the English-language historiography on psychology and physiology in Germany. Egbert Klautke draws on the writings of Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and Willy Hellpach to examine the development of folk psychology ( Völkerpsychologie ). Gabriel Finkelstein’s biography of Emil du Bois-Reymond tracks the life and influence of arguably Germany’s most renowned nineteenth-century physio…
The Politics of Suicide
Historically, suicide is a Western neologism. Unknown to Greco-Roman civilization, suicidium might as well have meant "swine-slaying" to a Latin speaker. 1 The warrior culture of Germanic successor states glorified heroic self-sacrifice, celebrated in medieval literature as chansons de geste. If St. Augustine condemned Donatism for actively promoting martyrdom during the persecutions, then in part for fear of its potential to rob the early Christ…
Fashioning Racial Selves
Grenzen der Anstalt
Journal Article Grenzen der Anstalt: Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in Deutschland 1860–1980 Get access Grenzen der Anstalt: Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in Deutschland 1860–1980. By Cornelia Brink. ‘Moderne Zeit: Neue Forschungen zur Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts’. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2010. 551 pp. €46.00 (hardback). Eric J. Engstrom Eric J. Engstrom Humboldt University Berlin Search for other works by this aut…
Classic Text No. 83
Penned at the height of the debate on national regeneration in Germany after World War I, Emil Kraepelin’s study On Uprootedness sets out his views on social psychiatry. More than just a response to critics of his nosology, On Uprootedness outlines a larger political agenda of social governance and ‘inner colonization’. This introduction places Kraepelin’s understanding of social psychiatry in the broader context of social reform debates in the e…
Mania
Journal Article Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder Get access David Healy, Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 296. £16.50. ISBN 978–0–8018–8822–9. Eric J. Engstrom Eric J. Engstrom Humboldt University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 3, December 2009, Pag…
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life
Reviewed by: The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950 Eric J. Engstrom Chandak Sengoopta. The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii + 354 pp. $45.00 (0-226-74863-4). This book explores the origins, contexts, and consequences of the humoral approach to sex gland research. It charts some of the complex ways in which sexual organs came…
Making Kraepelin history
This introduction surveys the literature on Kraepelin's legacy and assesses efforts on the part of neo-Kraepelinians to install him as a new, post-Freudian `father' of clinical psychiatry. It argues that in contemporary discourse Kraepelin has become a touchstone of professional loyalties and that he is put to use in the strategic organization and apportionment of disciplinary resources, power and knowledge
On the Question of Degeneration' by Emil Kraepelin (1908)1
The introduction to this Classic Text draws on a new consensus among researchers in the history of eugenics to assess how Kraepelin articulated his eugenic ideas and put them into practice. It analyses his article `On the Question of Degeneration' and finds him not just giving voice to his deep concern for the German Volk , but also espousing neo-Lamarckian views and building a large-scale, clinically oriented, epidemiological research programme.…
Researching Dementia in Imperial Germany
Nazi Psychoanalysis
International audience
Wilhelm Griesinger
Reviewed by: Wilhelm Griesinger: Psychiatrie als ärztlicher Humanismus Eric J. Engstrom Gerlof Verwey . Wilhelm Griesinger: Psychiatrie als ärztlicher Humanismus. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Arts & Boeve, 2004. x + 109 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 90-75341-31-8). Like his earlier work Psychiatry in an Anthropological and Biomedical Context (1985), Gerlof Verwey's most recent book on Wilhelm Griesinger is a careful, concise, and clearly arg…
A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Journal Article A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry Get access Eric J. Engstrom Eric J. Engstrom Humboldt University , Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkj009 Published: 01 April 2006
The Directions of Psychiatric Research by Emil Kraepelin
This classic text reproduces Emil Kraepelin’s inaugural lecture at the University of Dorpat in 1887. It represents one of the most succinct contemporary surveys of German psychiatric discourse in the 1880s. It also outlines Kraepelin’s own research priorities in the early years of his career, providing important historical background to the motives that drove him to place such great emphasis on (and hope in) experimental psychology. Contrary to o…
Emil Kraepelin's 'Self-Assessment'
Contemporary psychiatrists and historians know very little about the life of Emil Kraepelin. Until recently they had to glean what information they could from his memoirs, which had more to say about his travels to far-flung corners of the world than about his own mental life. Now, however, a unique historical document has been uncovered which opens a window on Kraepelin's own psyche. In a manuscript written shortly after World War I, Kraepelin t…
Years of British psychiatry, 1841–1991. Volume II
Years of British psychiatry, 1841-1991. Volume II
Masters of Bedlam. The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade . Andrew Scull , Charlotte MacKenzie , Nicholas Hervey
Kraepelin's 'diagnostic cards'
Tempering Madness
This essay examines some of the research practices and strategies that the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) deployed in his efforts to account for the significance of emotions in psychiatric illnesses. After briefly surveying Kraepelin’s understanding of emotions and providing some historical context for his work in the late nineteenth century, it examines three different approaches that he took to studying emotions. First, it discu…
The Politics of Suicide
Historically, suicide is a Western neologism. Unknown to Greco-Roman civilization, suicidium might as well have meant "swine-slaying" to a Latin speaker. 1 The warrior culture of Germanic successor states glorified heroic self-sacrifice, celebrated in medieval literature as chansons de geste. If St. Augustine condemned Donatism for actively promoting martyrdom during the persecutions, then in part for fear of its potential to rob the early Christ…
A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Journal Article A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry Get access Eric J. Engstrom Eric J. Engstrom Humboldt University , Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkj009 Published: 01 April 2006
Emil Kraepelin
Much has been said and written about Emil Kraepelin's psychiatric theories and nosology, but next to nothing about his sociopolitical engagement after assuming the directorship of the university clinic in Munich in 1903. This engagement took various forms, ranging from caustic confrontations in his battles against alcoholism and syphilis, to subversive activities aimed at toppling the German chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg in 1917, as well as to over…
Kraepelin's 'diagnostic cards'
Masters of Bedlam. The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade . Andrew Scull , Charlotte MacKenzie , Nicholas Hervey
Years of British psychiatry, 1841–1991. Volume II
Years of British psychiatry, 1841-1991. Volume II
Emil Kraepelin's 'Self-Assessment'
Contemporary psychiatrists and historians know very little about the life of Emil Kraepelin. Until recently they had to glean what information they could from his memoirs, which had more to say about his travels to far-flung corners of the world than about his own mental life. Now, however, a unique historical document has been uncovered which opens a window on Kraepelin's own psyche. In a manuscript written shortly after World War I, Kraepelin t…
The Directions of Psychiatric Research by Emil Kraepelin
This classic text reproduces Emil Kraepelin’s inaugural lecture at the University of Dorpat in 1887. It represents one of the most succinct contemporary surveys of German psychiatric discourse in the 1880s. It also outlines Kraepelin’s own research priorities in the early years of his career, providing important historical background to the motives that drove him to place such great emphasis on (and hope in) experimental psychology. Contrary to o…
Nazi Psychoanalysis
International audience
Wilhelm Griesinger
Reviewed by: Wilhelm Griesinger: Psychiatrie als ärztlicher Humanismus Eric J. Engstrom Gerlof Verwey . Wilhelm Griesinger: Psychiatrie als ärztlicher Humanismus. Nijmegen, The Netherlands: Arts & Boeve, 2004. x + 109 pp. Ill. No price given (paperbound, 90-75341-31-8). Like his earlier work Psychiatry in an Anthropological and Biomedical Context (1985), Gerlof Verwey's most recent book on Wilhelm Griesinger is a careful, concise, and clearly arg…
A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry
Journal Article A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry Get access Eric J. Engstrom Eric J. Engstrom Humboldt University , Berlin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 19, Issue 1, April 2006, Pages 149–150, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkj009 Published: 01 April 2006
Making Kraepelin history
This introduction surveys the literature on Kraepelin's legacy and assesses efforts on the part of neo-Kraepelinians to install him as a new, post-Freudian `father' of clinical psychiatry. It argues that in contemporary discourse Kraepelin has become a touchstone of professional loyalties and that he is put to use in the strategic organization and apportionment of disciplinary resources, power and knowledge
On the Question of Degeneration' by Emil Kraepelin (1908)1
The introduction to this Classic Text draws on a new consensus among researchers in the history of eugenics to assess how Kraepelin articulated his eugenic ideas and put them into practice. It analyses his article `On the Question of Degeneration' and finds him not just giving voice to his deep concern for the German Volk , but also espousing neo-Lamarckian views and building a large-scale, clinically oriented, epidemiological research programme.…
Researching Dementia in Imperial Germany
The Most Secret Quintessence of Life
Reviewed by: The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950 Eric J. Engstrom Chandak Sengoopta. The Most Secret Quintessence of Life: Sex, Glands, and Hormones, 1850–1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. xii + 354 pp. $45.00 (0-226-74863-4). This book explores the origins, contexts, and consequences of the humoral approach to sex gland research. It charts some of the complex ways in which sexual organs came…
Mania
Journal Article Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder Get access David Healy, Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 296. £16.50. ISBN 978–0–8018–8822–9. Eric J. Engstrom Eric J. Engstrom Humboldt University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 22, Issue 3, December 2009, Pag…
Classic Text No. 83
Penned at the height of the debate on national regeneration in Germany after World War I, Emil Kraepelin’s study On Uprootedness sets out his views on social psychiatry. More than just a response to critics of his nosology, On Uprootedness outlines a larger political agenda of social governance and ‘inner colonization’. This introduction places Kraepelin’s understanding of social psychiatry in the broader context of social reform debates in the e…
Fashioning Racial Selves
Grenzen der Anstalt
Journal Article Grenzen der Anstalt: Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in Deutschland 1860–1980 Get access Grenzen der Anstalt: Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft in Deutschland 1860–1980. By Cornelia Brink. ‘Moderne Zeit: Neue Forschungen zur Gesellschafts- und Kulturgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts’. Göttingen: Wallstein. 2010. 551 pp. €46.00 (hardback). Eric J. Engstrom Eric J. Engstrom Humboldt University Berlin Search for other works by this aut…
The Politics of Suicide
Historically, suicide is a Western neologism. Unknown to Greco-Roman civilization, suicidium might as well have meant "swine-slaying" to a Latin speaker. 1 The warrior culture of Germanic successor states glorified heroic self-sacrifice, celebrated in medieval literature as chansons de geste. If St. Augustine condemned Donatism for actively promoting martyrdom during the persecutions, then in part for fear of its potential to rob the early Christ…
The Mind of the Nation
These books represent important contributions to the English-language historiography on psychology and physiology in Germany. Egbert Klautke draws on the writings of Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and Willy Hellpach to examine the development of folk psychology ( Völkerpsychologie ). Gabriel Finkelstein’s biography of Emil du Bois-Reymond tracks the life and influence of arguably Germany’s most renowned nineteenth-century physio…
Emil Kraepelin’s Inaugural Lecture in Dorpat
In his inaugural lecture delivered at the University of Dorpat in 1886, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin presented one of the most concise accounts of the state of psychiatric research in the late nineteenth century. In his lecture, Kraepelin criticized the patho-anatomic research of contemporary neuropsychiatrists and argued that psychiatric research needed to be augmented by a new emphasis on experimental psychology. This article explores…
Tempering Madness
This essay examines some of the research practices and strategies that the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) deployed in his efforts to account for the significance of emotions in psychiatric illnesses. After briefly surveying Kraepelin’s understanding of emotions and providing some historical context for his work in the late nineteenth century, it examines three different approaches that he took to studying emotions. First, it discu…
Race, alcohol and general paralysis
This article examines Emil Kraepelin’s notion of comparative psychiatry and relates it to the clinical research he conducted at psychiatric hospitals in South-East Asia (1904) and the USA (1925). It argues that his research fits awkwardly within the common historiographic narratives of colonial psychiatry. It also disputes claims that his work can be interpreted meaningfully as the fons et origio of transcultural psychiatry. Instead, it argues th…
Timothy E. Pytell. Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning
In Viktor Frankl’s Search for Meaning Timothy E. Pytell has written an intellectual biography of the Auschwitz survivor and existentialist whose bestselling Holocaust testimony, Man’s Search for Meaning (1946), and popularized brand of logotherapeutic psychoanalysis made him one of the most prominent psychotherapists of the twentieth century. Frankl’s logotherapy represented an attempt to expand the reach of psychotherapy beyond physical and psyc…
Classic Text No. 136 ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’, by Harry Marcuse (1926)
In his article ‘On the question of unitary psychosis’ (1926), Harry Marcuse (1876–1931) undertook a thought experiment in which he challenged clinical psychiatrists to entertain the possibility that the concept of unitary psychosis could be a useful diagnostic and nosological tool. Drawing on the psychology of Friedrich Jodl (1849–1914) and contemporary notions of energeticism, Marcuse proposed a non-empirical, ‘analytic’ method of overcoming gro…
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