Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth CenturySince its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society. "Goldstein has raised our understanding of the politics of psychiatric professionalization on to a new plane."—Roy Porter, Times Higher Education Supplement "[A]n historiographical tour de force, quite simply the most insightful work on the subject in English or any other language. . . . [A] work of distinctive originality. . . . It is written with lucidity and elegance, even a certain confident scholarly panache, that make it a pleasure to read."—Toby Gelfand, Social History "Exhaustively researched, elegantly written, and persuasively argued, Console and Classify is an excellent example of the . . . sociologically informed intellectual history, stimulated by Kuhn and Foucault."—Robert Alun Jones, American Journal of Sociology |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Profession in context | 8 |
The corporate model | 15 |
The statist model | 20 |
The laissezfaire model | 28 |
Redefinition | 35 |
Toward psychiatry | 41 |
medicine as anthropology | 49 |
Religious roots and rivals | 197 |
The moral treatment as religious consolation | 200 |
The anticlerical current in early medecine mentale | 210 |
The collaborative possibility | 225 |
Choosing philosophical sides | 240 |
The philosophical choice | 242 |
Medecine mentale and physiology | 245 |
The inroads of spiritualism | 257 |
Specialization | 55 |
The transformation of charlatanism or the moral treatment | 64 |
a medical career in political context | 67 |
the origins of the moral treatment | 72 |
What was the moral treatment? | 80 |
Scientizing the treatment | 89 |
A therapy for the Revolution | 105 |
Healthy sentimentality | 117 |
The politics of patronage | 120 |
The Pinel circle | 122 |
The Esquirol circle | 128 |
specialization and the doctor glut | 147 |
Monomania | 152 |
The initial definition of the disease | 155 |
charting mental tendencies | 158 |
the emergence of forensic psychiatry | 162 |
A boundary dispute with the legal profession | 166 |
its partisans and its varieties | 169 |
The politicization of the monomania doctrine | 179 |
The medical defense of monomania and the selfdefense of psychiatric specialization | 184 |
The decline of monomania | 189 |
Practical implications of philosophical positions | 263 |
Some comparative remarks | 273 |
The Law of 1838 and the asylum system | 276 |
Lunacy legislation and the constitutional monarchy | 277 |
The obstacle of interdiction and the theory of isolation | 285 |
an exercise in political medicine | 292 |
The establishment of a nationwide asylum system | 297 |
Assessing the clerical threat | 307 |
Hysteria anticlerical politics and the view beyond the asylum | 322 |
The hysteria diagnosis and the epidemiology of hysteria | 323 |
The appropriation of the demifou | 331 |
A professions progress 18381876 | 339 |
Shifting political configurations 18381876 | 351 |
The anticlerical partnership | 361 |
Conclusion | 378 |
Appendix | 385 |
391 | |
Afterword | 398 |
416 | |
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