The modern age
A dilemma for psychiatry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9054164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roy D Waldman (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 569-577 |
| Publication date | 1969-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9432 • E-ISSN: 1939-0025 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1969.tb02452.x |
| PMID | 5803595 |
| OpenAlex | W1985357512 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The objectifying techniques of our age have tended to promote an interpretation of the psychiatric symptom in terms of mechanism rather than meaning. To the extent to which psychiatric theory has fostered a view of man abstracted from the concreteness of his sociohistorical realities, it has unwittingly fostered the very conditions having potential for mental illness
Dilemma · Epistemology · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |