Akihito Suzuki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akihito Suzuki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akihito |
| FAMILY NAME | Suzuki |
| SIGNATURE | SUZUKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yamagata University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5526-9141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Comparison of dysfunctional attitudes, cognitive vulnerability to depression, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in healthy participants
These findings suggest that a decrease in DAS-24 scores, particularly of the dependency subscale, occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Possible mechanisms underlying these results are 1) individuals became less preoccupied with receiving evaluation, 2) individuals realized that self-cognition depending on the approval of others is unimportant, and 3) high levels of dysfunctional attitude were maladaptive for obtaining affective benefits via soc…
Case report
Recoverin is a neuron-specific calcium-binding protein that is mainly located in the retina and pineal gland. Few reports have described patients with anti-recoverin antibody-positive encephalitis, and no cases of psychosis associated with this encephalitis have been reported. We report a patient with anti-recoverin antibody-positive encephalitis with Cotard and Capgras delusions who was successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). …
Madness in the Family
Alexander Williamson
Blind in Early Modern Japan
Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo, c . 1920–45
This paper explores domestic dynamics in the complex making of institutional psychiatry in Japan in c. 1920–45. It mainly examines gender issues between the relatively long-lasting system of the family care of mentally ill members and the use of freshly introduced systems of psychiatric hospitals. I shall look at the record of Ohji Brain Hospital (1901–45) in Tokyo, which has several thousands of case histories mainly in Tokyo c. 1920–45. From th…
Introduction
In the past decades, there has been an increasing scholarly interest in understanding the development of psychiatry and mental health in non-Western worlds in the modern period. Several collective efforts have been made on the East Asian part, and this special issue has selected the examples of the countries of China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Articles have utilized social and political constructions of psychiatric discourse, as well as…
Kingdom of the Sick
Case Report
Akathisia, which characterized by subjective restlessness and objective hyperactivity, is induced mostly by antipsychotics and antidepressants. Chronic akathisia is defined as persistence of symptoms for more than 3 months. The pathophysiology of chronic akathisia remains unclear. This report describes a depressed patient, a 66-year-old woman with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, with chronic akathisia. Her regional cerebral blood flow (…
Mental Disease and Japanese Modernity
Measles and the spatio-temporal structure of modern Japan1
This article explores the spatio-temporal structure of infectious diseases in modern Japan, using measles mortality data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three aspects of the epidemiology of measles are discussed: the synchronization of epidemic waves, seasonality, and age at infection. These epidemiological analyses are connected to, respectively, regional integration, governmental policy on primary school education, and t…
Melancholy and Material Unity of Man, 17th-18th Centuries (review)
Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe
Reviewed by: Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon Akihito Suzuki David Lederer. Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 361 pp. Ill. $90.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-85347-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-521- 85347-7). The relationship between religion and mental health care in the early modern period has been o…
Illness Experience and Therapeutic Choice
This article presents a history of medicine from the patient's viewpoint. Using archival materials from the Takinogawa Health Survey, conducted in Tokyo in 1938, the article examines differences in self-reported morbidity according to patients' ages and genders. It also examines differences in their choices of treatment according to income. The article proposes to understand these differences with reference to sociocultural, biological, and econo…
Psychological Subjects
Demarcating the subject area of the history of psychology is notoriously difficult. Writing the early intellectual history of psychology poses a most fundamental question: what is the history of psychology about? Do historians of psychology have to include such topics as religious doctrines about soul, demonology or logic (which was about how to use one's own mind)? Although Roger Smith, Fernando Vidal and others have tackled the question, no cle…
The Dr Ikkaku Ochi Collection
Akimitsu Naruyama (ed.), The Dr Ikkaku Ochi Collection: Medical Photographs from Japan around 1900 , Zurich: Scalo, 2004. Pp. 216. $39.95. ISBN 3–908247–71–3. The history of visual representation in Japanese medicine has attracted considerable scholarly and popular attention in the last couple of decades. Zuroku Nihon Iji Bunka Shiryō Shūsei (‘A Sourcebook of Illustrations from Historical Materials Related to Japanese Medical Culture’), a monumen…
My own private England – the madness of James Tilly Matthews and of his times
International audience
A Brain Hospital in Tokyo and its Private and Public Patients, 1926-45
This paper examines patients' demography at Ohji Brain Hospital, a prosperous private psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, from 1926 to 1945. Increase and decrease in the number of resident patients, new admissions and deaths are discussed, based on a database compiled from the patients' admission register. Particular attention is paid to the length of stay. The changing pattern of the distribution of the length of stay is examined in the light of new …
The Disease of the Self
Susan Sontag's now-classic Illness as Metaphor presents a compelling analysis of the paradoxical nature of the disease that was variously called consumption, phthisis pulmonalis, and, later, tuberculosis. Comparing the disease with cancer, she noted a stark contrast in the metaphors generated by the two fatal diseases of modern times: while cancer stood for negative values, consumption served as a metaphor of essentially positive attributes, such…
Dualism and the Transformation of Psychiatric Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Au XVII e siecle, la problematique de l'esprit est peu consideree dans le langage medical des psychiatres. Au XVIII e siecle, des travaux medico-philosophiques montrent l'importance de l'esprit dans la description des symptomes et de la therapeutique de la folie, et aboutissent a la naissance d'un nouveau concept du langage qui demontre le dualisme et la relation du corps et de l'esprit
Lunacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Lunacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Psychological Subjects
Demarcating the subject area of the history of psychology is notoriously difficult. Writing the early intellectual history of psychology poses a most fundamental question: what is the history of psychology about? Do historians of psychology have to include such topics as religious doctrines about soul, demonology or logic (which was about how to use one's own mind)? Although Roger Smith, Fernando Vidal and others have tackled the question, no cle…
Measles and the spatio-temporal structure of modern Japan1
This article explores the spatio-temporal structure of infectious diseases in modern Japan, using measles mortality data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three aspects of the epidemiology of measles are discussed: the synchronization of epidemic waves, seasonality, and age at infection. These epidemiological analyses are connected to, respectively, regional integration, governmental policy on primary school education, and t…
The Disease of the Self
Susan Sontag's now-classic Illness as Metaphor presents a compelling analysis of the paradoxical nature of the disease that was variously called consumption, phthisis pulmonalis, and, later, tuberculosis. Comparing the disease with cancer, she noted a stark contrast in the metaphors generated by the two fatal diseases of modern times: while cancer stood for negative values, consumption served as a metaphor of essentially positive attributes, such…
Dualism and the Transformation of Psychiatric Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Au XVII e siecle, la problematique de l'esprit est peu consideree dans le langage medical des psychiatres. Au XVIII e siecle, des travaux medico-philosophiques montrent l'importance de l'esprit dans la description des symptomes et de la therapeutique de la folie, et aboutissent a la naissance d'un nouveau concept du langage qui demontre le dualisme et la relation du corps et de l'esprit
Lunacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Lunacy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
Dualism and the Transformation of Psychiatric Language in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Au XVII e siecle, la problematique de l'esprit est peu consideree dans le langage medical des psychiatres. Au XVIII e siecle, des travaux medico-philosophiques montrent l'importance de l'esprit dans la description des symptomes et de la therapeutique de la folie, et aboutissent a la naissance d'un nouveau concept du langage qui demontre le dualisme et la relation du corps et de l'esprit
The Disease of the Self
Susan Sontag's now-classic Illness as Metaphor presents a compelling analysis of the paradoxical nature of the disease that was variously called consumption, phthisis pulmonalis, and, later, tuberculosis. Comparing the disease with cancer, she noted a stark contrast in the metaphors generated by the two fatal diseases of modern times: while cancer stood for negative values, consumption served as a metaphor of essentially positive attributes, such…
A Brain Hospital in Tokyo and its Private and Public Patients, 1926-45
This paper examines patients' demography at Ohji Brain Hospital, a prosperous private psychiatric hospital in Tokyo, from 1926 to 1945. Increase and decrease in the number of resident patients, new admissions and deaths are discussed, based on a database compiled from the patients' admission register. Particular attention is paid to the length of stay. The changing pattern of the distribution of the length of stay is examined in the light of new …
My own private England – the madness of James Tilly Matthews and of his times
International audience
The Dr Ikkaku Ochi Collection
Akimitsu Naruyama (ed.), The Dr Ikkaku Ochi Collection: Medical Photographs from Japan around 1900 , Zurich: Scalo, 2004. Pp. 216. $39.95. ISBN 3–908247–71–3. The history of visual representation in Japanese medicine has attracted considerable scholarly and popular attention in the last couple of decades. Zuroku Nihon Iji Bunka Shiryō Shūsei (‘A Sourcebook of Illustrations from Historical Materials Related to Japanese Medical Culture’), a monumen…
Psychological Subjects
Demarcating the subject area of the history of psychology is notoriously difficult. Writing the early intellectual history of psychology poses a most fundamental question: what is the history of psychology about? Do historians of psychology have to include such topics as religious doctrines about soul, demonology or logic (which was about how to use one's own mind)? Although Roger Smith, Fernando Vidal and others have tackled the question, no cle…
Melancholy and Material Unity of Man, 17th-18th Centuries (review)
Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe
Reviewed by: Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon Akihito Suzuki David Lederer. Madness, Religion and the State in Early Modern Europe: A Bavarian Beacon. New Studies in European History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xx + 361 pp. Ill. $90.00 (ISBN-10: 0-521-85347-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-521- 85347-7). The relationship between religion and mental health care in the early modern period has been o…
Illness Experience and Therapeutic Choice
This article presents a history of medicine from the patient's viewpoint. Using archival materials from the Takinogawa Health Survey, conducted in Tokyo in 1938, the article examines differences in self-reported morbidity according to patients' ages and genders. It also examines differences in their choices of treatment according to income. The article proposes to understand these differences with reference to sociocultural, biological, and econo…
Measles and the spatio-temporal structure of modern Japan1
This article explores the spatio-temporal structure of infectious diseases in modern Japan, using measles mortality data from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Three aspects of the epidemiology of measles are discussed: the synchronization of epidemic waves, seasonality, and age at infection. These epidemiological analyses are connected to, respectively, regional integration, governmental policy on primary school education, and t…
Mental Disease and Japanese Modernity
Kingdom of the Sick
Case Report
Akathisia, which characterized by subjective restlessness and objective hyperactivity, is induced mostly by antipsychotics and antidepressants. Chronic akathisia is defined as persistence of symptoms for more than 3 months. The pathophysiology of chronic akathisia remains unclear. This report describes a depressed patient, a 66-year-old woman with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder, with chronic akathisia. Her regional cerebral blood flow (…
Psychiatric hospital, domestic strategies and gender issues in Tokyo, c . 1920–45
This paper explores domestic dynamics in the complex making of institutional psychiatry in Japan in c. 1920–45. It mainly examines gender issues between the relatively long-lasting system of the family care of mentally ill members and the use of freshly introduced systems of psychiatric hospitals. I shall look at the record of Ohji Brain Hospital (1901–45) in Tokyo, which has several thousands of case histories mainly in Tokyo c. 1920–45. From th…
Introduction
In the past decades, there has been an increasing scholarly interest in understanding the development of psychiatry and mental health in non-Western worlds in the modern period. Several collective efforts have been made on the East Asian part, and this special issue has selected the examples of the countries of China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Articles have utilized social and political constructions of psychiatric discourse, as well as…
Blind in Early Modern Japan
Comparison of dysfunctional attitudes, cognitive vulnerability to depression, before and during the Covid-19 pandemic in healthy participants
These findings suggest that a decrease in DAS-24 scores, particularly of the dependency subscale, occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic. Possible mechanisms underlying these results are 1) individuals became less preoccupied with receiving evaluation, 2) individuals realized that self-cognition depending on the approval of others is unimportant, and 3) high levels of dysfunctional attitude were maladaptive for obtaining affective benefits via soc…
Case report
Recoverin is a neuron-specific calcium-binding protein that is mainly located in the retina and pineal gland. Few reports have described patients with anti-recoverin antibody-positive encephalitis, and no cases of psychosis associated with this encephalitis have been reported. We report a patient with anti-recoverin antibody-positive encephalitis with Cotard and Capgras delusions who was successfully treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). …
Madness in the Family
Alexander Williamson
Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (9 works) · History (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)