Introduction to 'On attitudes toward philosophy and psychology in German psychiatry, 1867-1917'

摘要

I seek here to illustrate continuity in the issues Engstrom illustrates in Chapter 17 about the career of Kraepelin in the late nineteenth century (with some attention also to that of Ziehen) and those that currently confront psychiatry early in the twenty-first century. In particular, I want to contextualize this chapter within the framework of what is arguably the most central of historical debates within psychiatry-the degree to which we view ourselves as a medical specialty focused on the brain versus on the mind.