Greg Eghigian
Biographic Data
| ID | 1025587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg Eghigian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | Eghigian |
| SIGNATURE | EGHIGIAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
Bettina Hitzer. The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany
Journal Article Bettina Hitzer. The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany. Get access Bettina Hitzer. The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 416. Cloth $105.00. Greg Eghigian Greg Eghigian Penn State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2…
Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft: Psychiatrische Einweisungspraxis im ‘Dritten Reich’, in der DDR und der Bundesrepublik 1941–1963
Stefanie Coché’s empirically rich monograph explores an important, yet surprisingly neglected, topic in the history of psychiatry: the practice of committing someone to a psychiatric facility. The public at large have long been fascinated with psychiatric commitment—in particular, with the terrifying prospect of the involuntary commitment of a sane individual by money-grubbing relatives or nefarious government authorities. Although these kinds of…
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust
Reports of unidentified flying objects and alien encounters have sparked amateur research (ufology), government investigations, and popular interest in the subject. Historically, however, scientists have generally greeted the topic with skepticism, most often dismissing ufology as pseudoscience and believers in unidentified flying objects and aliens as irrational or abnormal. Believers, in turn, have expressed doubts about the accuracy of academi…
Spannungsherde: Psychochirurgie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
During the 1930s, neurologists on both sides of the Atlantic first began experimenting with psychosurgery in an attempt to treat what were considered to be some of the most serious symptoms associated with mental illness. While leucotomies—or lobotomies, as they were also generally known—were increasingly being performed in the United States before 1945, European clinicians only first widely relied on the technique after the Second World War. Mar…
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible explores the surprising history of efforts aimed at rehabilitating convicts in 20th-century Germany, efforts founded not out of an unbridled optimism about the capacity of people to change, but arising from a chronic anxiety about the potential threats posed by others. Since the 1970s, criminal justice systems on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized security, surveillance, and atonement, an a…
A Drifting Concept for an Unruly Menace: A History of Psychopathy in Germany
The term "psychopath" has enjoyed wide currency both in popular culture and among specialists in forensic psychiatry. Historians, however, have generally neglected the subject. This essay examines the history of psychopathy in the country that first coined the term, developed the concept, and debated its treatment: Germany. While the notion can be traced to nineteenth-century psychiatric ideas about abnormal, yet not completely pathological, char…
A transatlantic buzz’: Flying saucers, extraterrestrials and America in postwar Germany
Deinstitutionalizing the history of contemporary psychiatry
While contemporary mental health services have been marked by the burgeoning of outpatient and preventive care, the historiography of psychiatry remains largely tied to the study of custodial and palliative treatment. The work in which contemporary psychiatry has been involved cannot be adequately understood as a singular, autonomous enterprise based in a residential facility. It has become a technoscience that operates in numerous settings and a…
Introduction: The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century
Sacrifice and National Belonging in Twentieth-Century Germany
German Sacrifice Today, John Borneman The Meaning of Dying, Marcus Funck Was It All Just a Dream, Brian E. Crim Injury, Fate, Resentment, and Sacrifice in German Political Culture, 1914-1939, Greg Eghigian There Is a Land Where Everything Is Pure, Michael Geyer The Violence of Difference, Uli Linke Sacrifice and Victimization in the Commemorative Practices of Nazi Genocide After German Unification Memorials and Visual Metaphors, Silke Wenk
The Psychologization of the Socialist Self: East German Forensic Psychology and its Deviants, 1945-1975
In the late 1940s and throughout most of the 1950s, East Germany largely criminalized and politicized such things as drug abuse, alcoholism, delinquency, and even mental illness, often treating them as moral threats and acts of subversion. By the 1960s, however, policy makers, courts, and social services in the GDR, in a development paralleled in other industrialized countries at the time, began turning to psychological and psychiatric approaches…
Der Kalte Krieg im Kopf: Ein Fall von Schizophrenie und die Geschichte des Selbst in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone
The transformation of psychology: Influences of 19th-century philosophy, technology, and natural science
The German Welfare State as a Discourse of Trauma
The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of what some have called a new, decidedly critical “welfare consensus” in Europe and North America. Many politicians, academic observers, public policy analysts, and public and private administrators of social services have come to agree on a relatively coherent set of axioms: that the state is overburdened; that the expansion of the welfare state has hindered economic growth; that the social safe…
Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler. Anne Harrington
Vom Greis zum Rentner: Der Strukturwandel des Alters in Deutschland zwischen 1830 und 1930.Christoph Conrad , Helmut Berding
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.Ian Hacking
The Politics of Victimization: Social Pensioners and the German Social State in the Inflation of 1914–1924
Over the years, scholars have identified the Weimar period as among the most pivotal in the development of the German social state ( Sozialstaat ). Noting what appears to have been an almost unbroken pattern of expansion in the compass of social work since the late nineteenth century, social scientists and historians have recognized the 1920s as a time of especially acute growth in public assistance. Government expenditures from the First World W…
The Psychologization of the Socialist Self: East German Forensic Psychology and its Deviants, 1945-1975
In the late 1940s and throughout most of the 1950s, East Germany largely criminalized and politicized such things as drug abuse, alcoholism, delinquency, and even mental illness, often treating them as moral threats and acts of subversion. By the 1960s, however, policy makers, courts, and social services in the GDR, in a development paralleled in other industrialized countries at the time, began turning to psychological and psychiatric approaches…
A Drifting Concept for an Unruly Menace: A History of Psychopathy in Germany
The term "psychopath" has enjoyed wide currency both in popular culture and among specialists in forensic psychiatry. Historians, however, have generally neglected the subject. This essay examines the history of psychopathy in the country that first coined the term, developed the concept, and debated its treatment: Germany. While the notion can be traced to nineteenth-century psychiatric ideas about abnormal, yet not completely pathological, char…
Introduction: The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century
The Politics of Victimization: Social Pensioners and the German Social State in the Inflation of 1914–1924
Over the years, scholars have identified the Weimar period as among the most pivotal in the development of the German social state ( Sozialstaat ). Noting what appears to have been an almost unbroken pattern of expansion in the compass of social work since the late nineteenth century, social scientists and historians have recognized the 1920s as a time of especially acute growth in public assistance. Government expenditures from the First World W…
The Politics of Victimization: Social Pensioners and the German Social State in the Inflation of 1914–1924
Over the years, scholars have identified the Weimar period as among the most pivotal in the development of the German social state ( Sozialstaat ). Noting what appears to have been an almost unbroken pattern of expansion in the compass of social work since the late nineteenth century, social scientists and historians have recognized the 1920s as a time of especially acute growth in public assistance. Government expenditures from the First World W…
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.Ian Hacking
Vom Greis zum Rentner: Der Strukturwandel des Alters in Deutschland zwischen 1830 und 1930.Christoph Conrad , Helmut Berding
Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler. Anne Harrington
The German Welfare State as a Discourse of Trauma
The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of what some have called a new, decidedly critical “welfare consensus” in Europe and North America. Many politicians, academic observers, public policy analysts, and public and private administrators of social services have come to agree on a relatively coherent set of axioms: that the state is overburdened; that the expansion of the welfare state has hindered economic growth; that the social safe…
Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Making Security Social: Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
The transformation of psychology: Influences of 19th-century philosophy, technology, and natural science
Der Kalte Krieg im Kopf: Ein Fall von Schizophrenie und die Geschichte des Selbst in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone
Sacrifice and National Belonging in Twentieth-Century Germany
German Sacrifice Today, John Borneman The Meaning of Dying, Marcus Funck Was It All Just a Dream, Brian E. Crim Injury, Fate, Resentment, and Sacrifice in German Political Culture, 1914-1939, Greg Eghigian There Is a Land Where Everything Is Pure, Michael Geyer The Violence of Difference, Uli Linke Sacrifice and Victimization in the Commemorative Practices of Nazi Genocide After German Unification Memorials and Visual Metaphors, Silke Wenk
The Psychologization of the Socialist Self: East German Forensic Psychology and its Deviants, 1945-1975
In the late 1940s and throughout most of the 1950s, East Germany largely criminalized and politicized such things as drug abuse, alcoholism, delinquency, and even mental illness, often treating them as moral threats and acts of subversion. By the 1960s, however, policy makers, courts, and social services in the GDR, in a development paralleled in other industrialized countries at the time, began turning to psychological and psychiatric approaches…
Introduction: The Self as Project: Politics and the Human Sciences in the Twentieth Century
Deinstitutionalizing the history of contemporary psychiatry
While contemporary mental health services have been marked by the burgeoning of outpatient and preventive care, the historiography of psychiatry remains largely tied to the study of custodial and palliative treatment. The work in which contemporary psychiatry has been involved cannot be adequately understood as a singular, autonomous enterprise based in a residential facility. It has become a technoscience that operates in numerous settings and a…
A transatlantic buzz’: Flying saucers, extraterrestrials and America in postwar Germany
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth-Century Germany
The Corrigible and the Incorrigible explores the surprising history of efforts aimed at rehabilitating convicts in 20th-century Germany, efforts founded not out of an unbridled optimism about the capacity of people to change, but arising from a chronic anxiety about the potential threats posed by others. Since the 1970s, criminal justice systems on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized security, surveillance, and atonement, an a…
A Drifting Concept for an Unruly Menace: A History of Psychopathy in Germany
The term "psychopath" has enjoyed wide currency both in popular culture and among specialists in forensic psychiatry. Historians, however, have generally neglected the subject. This essay examines the history of psychopathy in the country that first coined the term, developed the concept, and debated its treatment: Germany. While the notion can be traced to nineteenth-century psychiatric ideas about abnormal, yet not completely pathological, char…
Spannungsherde: Psychochirurgie nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
During the 1930s, neurologists on both sides of the Atlantic first began experimenting with psychosurgery in an attempt to treat what were considered to be some of the most serious symptoms associated with mental illness. While leucotomies—or lobotomies, as they were also generally known—were increasingly being performed in the United States before 1945, European clinicians only first widely relied on the technique after the Second World War. Mar…
The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health
Making UFOs make sense: Ufology, science, and the history of their mutual mistrust
Reports of unidentified flying objects and alien encounters have sparked amateur research (ufology), government investigations, and popular interest in the subject. Historically, however, scientists have generally greeted the topic with skepticism, most often dismissing ufology as pseudoscience and believers in unidentified flying objects and aliens as irrational or abnormal. Believers, in turn, have expressed doubts about the accuracy of academi…
Psychiatrie und Gesellschaft: Psychiatrische Einweisungspraxis im ‘Dritten Reich’, in der DDR und der Bundesrepublik 1941–1963
Stefanie Coché’s empirically rich monograph explores an important, yet surprisingly neglected, topic in the history of psychiatry: the practice of committing someone to a psychiatric facility. The public at large have long been fascinated with psychiatric commitment—in particular, with the terrifying prospect of the involuntary commitment of a sane individual by money-grubbing relatives or nefarious government authorities. Although these kinds of…
Bettina Hitzer. The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany
Journal Article Bettina Hitzer. The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany. Get access Bettina Hitzer. The History of Cancer and Emotions in Twentieth-Century Germany. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. 416. Cloth $105.00. Greg Eghigian Greg Eghigian Penn State University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 129, Issue 2…
Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum
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