Allan Beveridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 1458577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Beveridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Beveridge |
| SIGNATURE | BEVERIDGE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Margaret Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5179-3133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The presentation of mental disturbance in modern Scottish literature
The subject of madness features throughout world literature, but the literature of modern Scotland appears to be especially preoccupied with it. This paper gives a brief overview of the ways in which madness is represented in modern Scottish literature and the different artistic functions it performs. It will consider the subject on a thematic basis. First, there are accounts by writers who have experienced mental turmoil themselves. Second, ther…
‘We are all a little mad in one or other particular’. The presentation of madness in the novels of Muriel Spark
This paper examines the presentation of madness in the novels of the great Scottish writer, Muriel Spark (1918–2006). In her work, there is a large cast of mad characters as well as a succession of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. Spark suggests several explanations as to the origins of madness. We see mental disturbance conceived in terms of the supernatural, the religious and the Gothic. She also depicts insanity as a form of personality defec…
Karl Jaspers’ phenomenology in the light of histological and X-ray metaphors
The study considers the origins of Karl Jaspers’ phenomenology. What did phenomenology mean to Jaspers and what was his personal perspective? What metaphors did he associate with it? This paper describes his phenomenological method by using the metaphors of histology and the X-ray. This perspective enables a better understanding, not only of the origins and essence of his phenomenology but also of its value for Jaspers himself. In Jaspers’ daily …
The madness of Gerard de Nerval
This paper examines the madness of Gerard de Nerval, the nineteenth-century French writer. It looks at his account of mental disturbance, how he responded to the psychiatric profession and how he reacted to being diagnosed as insane. It considers his autobiographical novella of madness, Aurelia, which he began at the suggestion of his alienist, Dr Emile Blanche, and while he was still an asylum inmate. Nerval's story raises important questions ab…
The madness of King George III
This research, based on a study of King George III’s medical records and of contemporary diaries of his courtiers and equerries, further confirms the considerable doubt on the claim of Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine that the King suffered from recurrent attacks of acute porphyria. The present study examines the above records from a psychiatric viewpoint, together with some additional reports, to re-assess the nature of the King’s maladies. It c…
The psychiatrist, the historian and The Christian Watt Papers
The publication in the 1980s of The Christian Watt Papers brought to public attention the life of a previously unknown, long-term inmate of the Aberdeen Royal Asylum. Christian Watt's story inspired a play and a television documentary. This paper examines what the historical records reveal about Watt's life and how this compares with her own account
Japanese psychiatry in the Edo period (1600-1868)
Inside 'The Lunatic Manufacturing Company'
Inmates of the mid nineteenth-century Valencian asylum 'Hospital dels Ignoscents, Folls e Orats'. Is their illness diagnosable
Life in the Asylum
Metaphors of madness
Madness and politics
Maurice Dide (1873-1944
The contribution of Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) to the evolution of psychiatry
Madness in Victorian Edinburgh
Madness in Victorian Edinburgh
Bulgarian psychiatry
'Our most notable inmate'
Historical continuities and discontinuities between religious and medical interpretations of extreme fasting
Taking anorexia nervosa as an example, the attempt to write a history of a syndrome is defended on methodological grounds. Different approaches are considered: intellectual histories of concepts, histories of syndromes and the reconstruction of cultural influences on a syndrome. An early description of two cases of anorexia nervosa that have been rediagnosed retrospectively is presented and the intellectual and institutional context which made it…
The psychodynamic approach in American psychiatry
Edinburgh's Poet Laureate
Edinburgh's Poet Laureate, Robert Fergusson died in the City Bedlam at the age of 24. Available information concerning his last months is examined and a possible explanation is offered for his early demise
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Edinburgh's Poet Laureate
Edinburgh's Poet Laureate, Robert Fergusson died in the City Bedlam at the age of 24. Available information concerning his last months is examined and a possible explanation is offered for his early demise
Historical continuities and discontinuities between religious and medical interpretations of extreme fasting
Taking anorexia nervosa as an example, the attempt to write a history of a syndrome is defended on methodological grounds. Different approaches are considered: intellectual histories of concepts, histories of syndromes and the reconstruction of cultural influences on a syndrome. An early description of two cases of anorexia nervosa that have been rediagnosed retrospectively is presented and the intellectual and institutional context which made it…
The psychodynamic approach in American psychiatry
Bulgarian psychiatry
'Our most notable inmate'
Madness and politics
Maurice Dide (1873-1944
The contribution of Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) to the evolution of psychiatry
Madness in Victorian Edinburgh
Madness in Victorian Edinburgh
Metaphors of madness
Life in the Asylum
Inmates of the mid nineteenth-century Valencian asylum 'Hospital dels Ignoscents, Folls e Orats'. Is their illness diagnosable
Japanese psychiatry in the Edo period (1600-1868)
Inside 'The Lunatic Manufacturing Company'
The psychiatrist, the historian and The Christian Watt Papers
The publication in the 1980s of The Christian Watt Papers brought to public attention the life of a previously unknown, long-term inmate of the Aberdeen Royal Asylum. Christian Watt's story inspired a play and a television documentary. This paper examines what the historical records reveal about Watt's life and how this compares with her own account
The madness of King George III
This research, based on a study of King George III’s medical records and of contemporary diaries of his courtiers and equerries, further confirms the considerable doubt on the claim of Richard Hunter and Ida Macalpine that the King suffered from recurrent attacks of acute porphyria. The present study examines the above records from a psychiatric viewpoint, together with some additional reports, to re-assess the nature of the King’s maladies. It c…
The madness of Gerard de Nerval
This paper examines the madness of Gerard de Nerval, the nineteenth-century French writer. It looks at his account of mental disturbance, how he responded to the psychiatric profession and how he reacted to being diagnosed as insane. It considers his autobiographical novella of madness, Aurelia, which he began at the suggestion of his alienist, Dr Emile Blanche, and while he was still an asylum inmate. Nerval's story raises important questions ab…
Karl Jaspers’ phenomenology in the light of histological and X-ray metaphors
The study considers the origins of Karl Jaspers’ phenomenology. What did phenomenology mean to Jaspers and what was his personal perspective? What metaphors did he associate with it? This paper describes his phenomenological method by using the metaphors of histology and the X-ray. This perspective enables a better understanding, not only of the origins and essence of his phenomenology but also of its value for Jaspers himself. In Jaspers’ daily …
‘We are all a little mad in one or other particular’. The presentation of madness in the novels of Muriel Spark
This paper examines the presentation of madness in the novels of the great Scottish writer, Muriel Spark (1918–2006). In her work, there is a large cast of mad characters as well as a succession of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. Spark suggests several explanations as to the origins of madness. We see mental disturbance conceived in terms of the supernatural, the religious and the Gothic. She also depicts insanity as a form of personality defec…
The presentation of mental disturbance in modern Scottish literature
The subject of madness features throughout world literature, but the literature of modern Scotland appears to be especially preoccupied with it. This paper gives a brief overview of the ways in which madness is represented in modern Scottish literature and the different artistic functions it performs. It will consider the subject on a thematic basis. First, there are accounts by writers who have experienced mental turmoil themselves. Second, ther…
Psychology (17 works) · History (16 works) · Psychoanalysis (13 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)