Proving the somaticist position
J. B. Friedreich on the nature and seat of mental disease
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19445409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth C Kirkby (0000-0002-4730-1199, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 237-251 |
| Publication date | 1992-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957154x9200301006 |
| PMID | 11623033 |
| OpenAlex | W2074949143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The emerging specialty of psychiatry in Germany in the first half of the nineteenth century showed a preoccupation with theoretical issues regarding whether mental disease was correctly attributed to somatic or psychic causes. J. B. Friedreich was a champion of the somaticist view, and the methods and evidence which he used to defend this position and which he presented as a series of proofs, are scrutinized in detail in this paper. This illustrates how the dichotomous debate between the somaticist and mentalist viewpoints was sustained by a speculative philosophical method based on a dualistic conception of body and soul and supported by subjective clinical observations ranging from succinct to banal or even absurd
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
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| Highly cited | No |
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