Rajendra Persaud
Biographic Data
| ID | 8939238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajendra Persaud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajendra |
| FAMILY NAME | Persaud |
| SIGNATURE | PERSAUD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria Park |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The psychopathology of authority and its loss
A consultant psychiatrist on an in‐patient psychiatric unit left temporarily for a four‐week visit to Australia. Eight of 11 patients under his care developed disturbed behaviour, although all had been stable for many months before. Of the other 11 patients on the same ward, under the care of another consultant psychiatrist, only one developed similar problems over this time. It has already been well established in previous research that loss eve…
The reporting of psychiatric symptoms in history
Information on patients left by a nurse in a large British asylum in 1823 has suggested that the occurrence of schizophrenic symptoms in asylums was not uncommon at that time. This paper presents another nurse's report, this time an unpublished notebook from North America in the 1790s, indicating that schizophrenic symptomatology was rare during this period. The two nurses' accounts differ significantly, the one before 1800 reporting little schiz…
A comparison of symptoms recorded from the same patients by an asylum doctor and 'a Constant Observer' in 1823
The difficulty in finding descriptions of schizophrenic symptoms until after the start of the nineteenth century has led to the suggestion that this disease may not have existed before that time. A writer who described himself as 'a constant observer' and who was in close contact with many of the mentally ill in a large asylum at the beginning of the nineteenth century presents a different picture of prevalent symptoms of mental illness to those …
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A comparison of symptoms recorded from the same patients by an asylum doctor and 'a Constant Observer' in 1823
The difficulty in finding descriptions of schizophrenic symptoms until after the start of the nineteenth century has led to the suggestion that this disease may not have existed before that time. A writer who described himself as 'a constant observer' and who was in close contact with many of the mentally ill in a large asylum at the beginning of the nineteenth century presents a different picture of prevalent symptoms of mental illness to those …
The reporting of psychiatric symptoms in history
Information on patients left by a nurse in a large British asylum in 1823 has suggested that the occurrence of schizophrenic symptoms in asylums was not uncommon at that time. This paper presents another nurse's report, this time an unpublished notebook from North America in the 1790s, indicating that schizophrenic symptomatology was rare during this period. The two nurses' accounts differ significantly, the one before 1800 reporting little schiz…
The psychopathology of authority and its loss
A consultant psychiatrist on an in‐patient psychiatric unit left temporarily for a four‐week visit to Australia. Eight of 11 patients under his care developed disturbed behaviour, although all had been stable for many months before. Of the other 11 patients on the same ward, under the care of another consultant psychiatrist, only one developed similar problems over this time. It has already been well established in previous research that loss eve…
Psychiatry (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · History of psychiatry (2 works) · Neurology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Ethics in medical practice (1 work) · History (1 work) · History of Medicine Studies (1 work)