Anne Harrington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Harrington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrington |
| SIGNATURE | HARRINGTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-3803-8218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental Health's Stalled (Biological) Revolution: Its Origins, Aftermath & Future Opportunities
The 1980s, by common consensus, saw a big and remarkably rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives in American psychiatry and toward a so-called medical model foregrounding biology and the brain. The standard understanding is that this happened because, after years of wandering lost in a Freudian desert, the field had finally gained some fundamental new biological understandings of mental illness. Th…
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler have shown, people often depart in systematic ways from the predictions of the rational actor model of classic economic thought because of the influence of emotions, cognitive biases, an av…
Mother Love and Mental Illness: An Emotional History
Most scholarship on the medicalization of emotions has focused on projects that locate emotions, one way or another, within individual brains and minds. The story of mother love and mental illness, in contrast, is a medicalization story that frames the problem of pathological emotions as a relational issue. Bad mother love was seen as both a pathology (for the mother) and a pathogen (for her vulnerable child).Moreover, different forms of patholog…
When mindfulness is therapy: Ethical qualms, historical perspectives
In the past 20 years, mindfulness therapeutic programs have moved firmly into the mainstream of clinical practice and beyond. As they have, we have also seen the development of an increasingly vocal critique. At issue is often less whether or not these mindfulness practices “work,” and more whether there is a danger in dissociating them from the ethical frameworks for which they were originally developed. Mindfulness, the argument goes, was never…
Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture
The Many Meanings of the Placebo Effect: Where They Came From, Why They Matter
Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
OBJECTIVE: The underlying changes in biological processes that are associated with reported changes in mental and physical health in response to meditation have not been systematically explored. We performed a randomized, controlled study on the effects on brain and immune function of a well-known and widely used 8-week clinical training program in mindfulness meditation applied in a work environment with healthy employees. METHODS: We measured b…
Reenchanted Science
Patient, Heal Thyself
Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Gestalt psychology in German culture, 1890-1967: Holism and the quest for objectivity
Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man. Kurt Goldstein
A Neuropsychological Perspective on Dual Diagnosis
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether patients experiencing both a major psychiatric disorder and a concurrent substance abuse problem (dual diagnosis) manifest greater neuropsychological dysfunctions than patients experiencing a major psychiatric disorder alone. Differences in diagnostic variability and fluidity between dual diagnosis and non-dual diagnosis patients and the occurrence of polysubstance abuse among the dual diagnosi…
Science, animal rights, and the polemics of `clear thinking'
Interwar "German" Psychobiology: Between Nationalism and the Irrational
The ArgumentThis paper is concerned with "holism" as a German cultural "style" of doing psychobiology in Central Europe between the two world wars. The paper takes its starting point from a critical analysis of Forman's writings on nationalism versus internationalism in interwar German science, and the alleged "accommodation" of interwar German physics to an antiscientific, irrationalist culture. The paper argues that psychobiological holism was …
Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty. Susan Leigh Star
When mindfulness is therapy: Ethical qualms, historical perspectives
In the past 20 years, mindfulness therapeutic programs have moved firmly into the mainstream of clinical practice and beyond. As they have, we have also seen the development of an increasingly vocal critique. At issue is often less whether or not these mindfulness practices “work,” and more whether there is a danger in dissociating them from the ethical frameworks for which they were originally developed. Mindfulness, the argument goes, was never…
Mother Love and Mental Illness: An Emotional History
Most scholarship on the medicalization of emotions has focused on projects that locate emotions, one way or another, within individual brains and minds. The story of mother love and mental illness, in contrast, is a medicalization story that frames the problem of pathological emotions as a relational issue. Bad mother love was seen as both a pathology (for the mother) and a pathogen (for her vulnerable child).Moreover, different forms of patholog…
Interwar "German" Psychobiology: Between Nationalism and the Irrational
The ArgumentThis paper is concerned with "holism" as a German cultural "style" of doing psychobiology in Central Europe between the two world wars. The paper takes its starting point from a critical analysis of Forman's writings on nationalism versus internationalism in interwar German science, and the alleged "accommodation" of interwar German physics to an antiscientific, irrationalist culture. The paper argues that psychobiological holism was …
Interwar "German" Psychobiology: Between Nationalism and the Irrational
The ArgumentThis paper is concerned with "holism" as a German cultural "style" of doing psychobiology in Central Europe between the two world wars. The paper takes its starting point from a critical analysis of Forman's writings on nationalism versus internationalism in interwar German science, and the alleged "accommodation" of interwar German physics to an antiscientific, irrationalist culture. The paper argues that psychobiological holism was …
Regions of the Mind: Brain Research and the Quest for Scientific Certainty. Susan Leigh Star
Science, animal rights, and the polemics of `clear thinking'
A Neuropsychological Perspective on Dual Diagnosis
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether patients experiencing both a major psychiatric disorder and a concurrent substance abuse problem (dual diagnosis) manifest greater neuropsychological dysfunctions than patients experiencing a major psychiatric disorder alone. Differences in diagnostic variability and fluidity between dual diagnosis and non-dual diagnosis patients and the occurrence of polysubstance abuse among the dual diagnosi…
Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
The Organism: A Holistic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man. Kurt Goldstein
Gestalt psychology in German culture, 1890-1967: Holism and the quest for objectivity
Patient, Heal Thyself
Reenchanted Science: Holism in German Culture from Wilhelm II to Hitler
Reenchanted Science
Alterations in Brain and Immune Function Produced by Mindfulness Meditation
OBJECTIVE: The underlying changes in biological processes that are associated with reported changes in mental and physical health in response to meditation have not been systematically explored. We performed a randomized, controlled study on the effects on brain and immune function of a well-known and widely used 8-week clinical training program in mindfulness meditation applied in a work environment with healthy employees. METHODS: We measured b…
The Many Meanings of the Placebo Effect: Where They Came From, Why They Matter
Pain and Its Transformations: The Interface of Biology and Culture
When mindfulness is therapy: Ethical qualms, historical perspectives
In the past 20 years, mindfulness therapeutic programs have moved firmly into the mainstream of clinical practice and beyond. As they have, we have also seen the development of an increasingly vocal critique. At issue is often less whether or not these mindfulness practices “work,” and more whether there is a danger in dissociating them from the ethical frameworks for which they were originally developed. Mindfulness, the argument goes, was never…
Mother Love and Mental Illness: An Emotional History
Most scholarship on the medicalization of emotions has focused on projects that locate emotions, one way or another, within individual brains and minds. The story of mother love and mental illness, in contrast, is a medicalization story that frames the problem of pathological emotions as a relational issue. Bad mother love was seen as both a pathology (for the mother) and a pathogen (for her vulnerable child).Moreover, different forms of patholog…
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
Mind Fixers: Psychiatry's Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler have shown, people often depart in systematic ways from the predictions of the rational actor model of classic economic thought because of the influence of emotions, cognitive biases, an av…
Mental Health's Stalled (Biological) Revolution: Its Origins, Aftermath & Future Opportunities
The 1980s, by common consensus, saw a big and remarkably rapid pivot away from previously dominant psychoanalytic and social science perspectives in American psychiatry and toward a so-called medical model foregrounding biology and the brain. The standard understanding is that this happened because, after years of wandering lost in a Freudian desert, the field had finally gained some fundamental new biological understandings of mental illness. Th…
Psychology (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · German (3 works) · History (3 works)