Elizabeth Lunbeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 285647 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Lunbeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lunbeck |
| SIGNATURE | LUNBECK E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Analyst's New Clothes: Reading J.C. Flügel into Fashioning Masculinities . On Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear , Victoria and Albert Museum
J oel W hitebook . Freud: An Intellectual Biography
For some forty years now, the so-called “Freud Wars” have been raging in the popular press and across the disciplines. Sigmund Freud was a scientific fraud, claim combatants on one side, his preposterous theories unprovable and marked irredeemably by serious flaws of character—most recently and sensationally, that he was both addicted to cocaine and slept with his sister-in-law. No matter, argues the other side; there is no more acute chronicler …
Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes
Psychoanalysis has been contested since its founding in the late nineteenth century, charged variously with being unscientific, obsessed with sex, preposterous, and, most pointedly, irrelevant. At the same time, however, it has proven remarkably influential and durable as both a body of theory and a set of practices. Sigmund Freud may be dead, but Freudianism lives on, its presence evident in a broad swath of twenty-first century cultural and int…
David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation: America’s Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869–1920
Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects-such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes-or, as they are known in biology, …
Borderline Histories: Psychoanalysis Inside and Out
Argument Sociologists and historians have long favored externalist over internalist accounts of practices in the clinical disciplines. This has been particularly true in the case of the so-called new patient or borderline personality, which a range of commentators have located in culturally resonant narratives of decline. I argue here that these narratives, while pleasing, do not hold up as history; most problematic is their assumption that the a…
Invisible Hands
Journal Article Invisible Hands Get access Elizabeth Lunbeck Elizabeth Lunbeck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 57, Issue 1, SPRING 2004, Pages 278–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/57.1.278 Published: 01 March 2004
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore how feminist theory has had a direct impact on research in the biological and social sciences, in medicine, and in technology, often providing the impe…
The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria', the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson (review)
Lawrence J. Friedman's comprehensive and engaging biography of the American psychoanalyst and prophetic cultural critic Erik H. Erikson is organized around a suggestive paradox: the man who delineated identity as a protean concept that would appeal, in the 1960s and 1970s, to everyone from revisionist psychoanalysts to college students in search of authentic selfhood, was a man fated, by the accident of his birth to a single mother who never divu…
Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder (review)
Reviewed by: Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder Elizabeth Lunbeck Joan Busfield. Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xiv + 287 pp. Ill. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paperbound). Compact, comprehensive, and judicious, Men, Women, and Madness surveys the immense professional and popular literature on gender and mental disorder [End Page 350] from a c…
Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ian Robert Dowbiggin
American Psychiatrists and the Modern Man, 1900 to 1920
This article examines two competing popular and professional constructions of masculinity in the first two decades of the century. One was the masculinity of youth, separatist and oppositional vis-à-vis women; the other was the respectable masculinity of bread-winning and married life. Drawing on psychiatric case records (from the Boston Psychopathic Hospital) as well as a range of published sources, this article argues that professionals advocat…
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Ellen Herman
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research . Vern L. Bullough
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
Journal Article The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. By Elizabeth Lunbcck. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiv, 431 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-04804-5.) Get access James H. Jones James H. Jones University of Houston, Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 785–786, https://doi.org/…
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession's fortunes and aims? Here, Elizabeth Lunbeck examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its…
The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman
Journal Article The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman. Ed. by John S. Hughes. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. xvi, 260 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-87249-840-9.) Get access Elizabeth Limbeck Elizabeth Limbeck Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081097 Publishe…
Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900
A New Generation of Women: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female
In the early years of the twentieth century, a number of prominent American psychiatrists identified the hypersexual female, the willfully passionate woman who could not control her desires for sexual pleasure, as an issue of pressing medical concern. Psychiatrists diagnosed whose sexuality they deemed abnormally aggressive as these women, they explained, suffered from an inborn condition for which there was no remedy save institutionalization. B…
Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects-such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes-or, as they are known in biology, …
A New Generation of Women: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female
In the early years of the twentieth century, a number of prominent American psychiatrists identified the hypersexual female, the willfully passionate woman who could not control her desires for sexual pleasure, as an issue of pressing medical concern. Psychiatrists diagnosed whose sexuality they deemed abnormally aggressive as these women, they explained, suffered from an inborn condition for which there was no remedy save institutionalization. B…
The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman
Journal Article The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman. Ed. by John S. Hughes. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. xvi, 260 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-87249-840-9.) Get access Elizabeth Limbeck Elizabeth Limbeck Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081097 Publishe…
A New Generation of Women: Progressive Psychiatrists and the Hypersexual Female
In the early years of the twentieth century, a number of prominent American psychiatrists identified the hypersexual female, the willfully passionate woman who could not control her desires for sexual pleasure, as an issue of pressing medical concern. Psychiatrists diagnosed whose sexuality they deemed abnormally aggressive as these women, they explained, suffered from an inborn condition for which there was no remedy save institutionalization. B…
Freud, Dora, and Vienna 1900
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
In the years between 1900 and 1930, American psychiatrists transformed their profession from a marginal science focused primarily on the care of the mentally ill into a powerful discipline concerned with analyzing the common difficulties of everyday life. How did psychiatrists effect such a dramatic change in their profession's fortunes and aims? Here, Elizabeth Lunbeck examines how psychiatry grew to take the whole world of human endeavor as its…
The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman
Journal Article The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman. Ed. by John S. Hughes. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993. xvi, 260 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-87249-840-9.) Get access Elizabeth Limbeck Elizabeth Limbeck Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 303–304, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081097 Publishe…
Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research . Vern L. Bullough
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
Journal Article The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America. By Elizabeth Lunbcck. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. xiv, 431 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-691-04804-5.) Get access James H. Jones James H. Jones University of Houston, Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Pages 785–786, https://doi.org/…
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Ellen Herman
The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America
Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder (review)
Reviewed by: Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder Elizabeth Lunbeck Joan Busfield. Men, Women, and Madness: Understanding Gender and Mental Disorder. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xiv + 287 pp. Ill. $50.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paperbound). Compact, comprehensive, and judicious, Men, Women, and Madness surveys the immense professional and popular literature on gender and mental disorder [End Page 350] from a c…
Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940. Ian Robert Dowbiggin
American Psychiatrists and the Modern Man, 1900 to 1920
This article examines two competing popular and professional constructions of masculinity in the first two decades of the century. One was the masculinity of youth, separatist and oppositional vis-à-vis women; the other was the respectable masculinity of bread-winning and married life. Drawing on psychiatric case records (from the Boston Psychopathic Hospital) as well as a range of published sources, this article argues that professionals advocat…
Identity's Architect: A Biography of Erik H. Erikson (review)
Lawrence J. Friedman's comprehensive and engaging biography of the American psychoanalyst and prophetic cultural critic Erik H. Erikson is organized around a suggestive paradox: the man who delineated identity as a protean concept that would appeal, in the 1960s and 1970s, to everyone from revisionist psychoanalysts to college students in search of authentic selfhood, was a man fated, by the accident of his birth to a single mother who never divu…
The Technology of Orgasm: Hysteria', the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine
What useful changes has feminism brought to science? Feminists have enjoyed success in their efforts to open many fields to women as participants. But the effects of feminism have not been restricted to altering employment and professional opportunities for women. The essays in this volume explore how feminist theory has had a direct impact on research in the biological and social sciences, in medicine, and in technology, often providing the impe…
Invisible Hands
Journal Article Invisible Hands Get access Elizabeth Lunbeck Elizabeth Lunbeck Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 57, Issue 1, SPRING 2004, Pages 278–283, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/57.1.278 Published: 01 March 2004
Borderline Histories: Psychoanalysis Inside and Out
Argument Sociologists and historians have long favored externalist over internalist accounts of practices in the clinical disciplines. This has been particularly true in the case of the so-called new patient or borderline personality, which a range of commentators have located in culturally resonant narratives of decline. I argue here that these narratives, while pleasing, do not hold up as history; most problematic is their assumption that the a…
Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Physicists regularly invoke universal laws, such as those of motion and electromagnetism, to explain events. Biological and medical scientists have no such laws. How then do they acquire a reliable body of knowledge about biological organisms and human disease? One way is by repeatedly returning to, manipulating, observing, interpreting, and reinterpreting certain subjects-such as flies, mice, worms, or microbes-or, as they are known in biology, …
David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation: America’s Search for Health, Happiness, and Comfort, 1869–1920
Cold War Freud: Psychoanalysis in an Age of Catastrophes
Psychoanalysis has been contested since its founding in the late nineteenth century, charged variously with being unscientific, obsessed with sex, preposterous, and, most pointedly, irrelevant. At the same time, however, it has proven remarkably influential and durable as both a body of theory and a set of practices. Sigmund Freud may be dead, but Freudianism lives on, its presence evident in a broad swath of twenty-first century cultural and int…
J oel W hitebook . Freud: An Intellectual Biography
For some forty years now, the so-called “Freud Wars” have been raging in the popular press and across the disciplines. Sigmund Freud was a scientific fraud, claim combatants on one side, his preposterous theories unprovable and marked irredeemably by serious flaws of character—most recently and sensationally, that he was both addicted to cocaine and slept with his sister-in-law. No matter, argues the other side; there is no more acute chronicler …
The Analyst's New Clothes: Reading J.C. Flügel into Fashioning Masculinities . On Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear , Victoria and Albert Museum
Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (8 works) · History (8 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)