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65
   
an analysis of his dreams:
Ibid.

 

65
   
“from the medical point of view”:
Kraepelin,
Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry
, 1.

 

66
   
Julien Offray de La Mettrie:
For biographical information on La Mettrie, see Frederick the Great, “Eulogy on La Mettrie,” and Wellman,
La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy and Enlightenment
.

 

66
   
“it possesses muscles”:
La Mettrie,
Machine Man
, 28.

 

66
   
a “machine that winds itself up”:
Ibid., 7.

 

66
   
a “vain term”:
Ibid., 26.

 

66
   
“everything can be explained”:
Ibid., 28.

 

66
   
the brain was divided:
Davies,
Phrenology
, 3–12.

 

66
   
“This doctrine concerning the head”:
Van Wyhe, “The Authority of Human Nature,” 25.

 

67
   
“There is always unending applause”:
Ibid., 29.

 

67
   
Spurzheim claimed:
Davies,
Phrenology
, 7.

 

67
   
nearly half the mental patients:
Steinach, “Etiology of General Paresis,” 877.

 

67
   
whose eyes were weak:
Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 101.

 

68
   
“masturbatory insanity”:
Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 103.

 

68
   
“Pathological anatomy”:
Kraepelin,
Lectures
, 27.

 

69
   
“Deus creavit”
: Blunt,
Linnaeus,
184.

 

70
   
“cut nature at its joints”:
Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 105.

 

70
   
His method was straightforward:
Ibid.

 

71
   
dementia praecox
: Kraepelin,
Lectures
, 25.

 

71
   
involution psychosis
: Ibid., 15.

 

72
   
“All the insane are dangerous”:
Ibid., 2–3.

 

72
   
to prevent the marriage of the insane:
Ibid., 3.

 

72
   
“the growing degeneration”:
Ibid., 4. See also Zilboorg and Henry,
A History of Medical Psychology,
453–54.

 

73
   
“In the course of years”:
Quoted in Jackson,
Melancholia,
190.

 

73
   
“psychomotor excitement”:
Kraepelin and Diefendorf,
Clinical Psychiatry,
381.

 

74
   
Gentlemen, the patient:
Kraepelin,
Lectures,
12.

 

75
   
Here is a case:
Ibid., 14–15.

 

75
   
“numberless…cases of maniacal-depressive insanity”:
Ibid., 19.

 

76
   
The mildest form:
Kraepelin and Diefendorf,
Clinical Psychiatry
, 400–401.

 

76
   
Georges Dreyfus:
Dreyfus,
Die Melancholie
. I have not been able to find an English version of this monograph. For a discussion of its particulars, see Hoch and MacCurdy, “The Prognosis of Involution Melancholia,” and Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 356.

 

77
   
It includes all the morbidly anxious states:
Kraepelin and Diefendorf,
Clinical Psychiatry,
348–49.

 

78
   
“one of the most frequent forms”:
Hoch and MacCurdy, “The Prognosis of Involution Melancholia,” 1.

 

78
   
“zeal outran his judgment”:
Ibid., 2–3.

 

78
   
Variations of the emotional status:
Ibid., 3.

 

78
   
“individual taste”:
Ibid., 16.

 

CHAPTER 5

 

Page

82
   
“She had been one of the sanest”:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 22–23. Also, Meyer, “Presidential Address,” 21.

 

82
   
he had wanted to stay on in Forel’s lab:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 21–22.

 

83
   
an “old humbug”:
Ibid., 24.

 

83
   
His office was upstairs:
Ibid., 43–46.

 

84
   
“hopelessly sunk into routine”:
Ibid., 47.

 

84
   
their reasoning for diagnosis:
Ibid., 48.

 

85
   
“the existence of a pathologist”:
Ibid.

 

85
   
“Now, doctor, show us”:
Ibid.

 

85
   
“mind cannot be diseased”:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 5; see also Lidz, “Adolf Meyer and the Development of American Psychiatry,” 321.

 

85
   
“lasting wish”:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 51.

 

86
   
Meyer met Jane Addams:
Ibid.

 

86
   
“accept the disposition”:
Ibid., 71.

 

86
   
“early prevention of danger”:
Ibid., 71–75.

 

87
   
“The human organism”:
Meyer, “Presidential Address,” 3.

 

87
   
“Steering clear of useless puzzles”:
Lidz, “Adolf Meyer,” 326.

 

87
   
his newfound pragmatism:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 546–47. Also Meyer, “Presidential Address.”

 

87
   
the job of psychiatrists:
Meyer, “Presidential Address.”

 

87
   
There he found his mother:
Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 83.

 

88
   
“the supposed disease”:
Ibid., 174.

 

88
   
“neurologizing tautologies”:
Ibid., 381.

 

88
   
can we not use general principles:
Ibid., 156.

 

89
   
“There is no advantage”:
Meyer, “The ‘Complaint’ as the Center of Genetic-Dynamic and Nosological Teaching,” 366.

 

89
   
to view the abnormal
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 136.

 

89
   
“The public here”
: Ibid., 57.

 

90
   
“give us a clue for progress”
: Meyer, “A Few Demonstrations of the Pathology of the Brain,” 242.

 

90
   
a rearguard action
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 51.

 

90
   
neurologists had already cornered
: Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 114–19.

 

91
   
“the list”
: Lutz,
American Nervousness,
19.

 

91
   
“insomnia, flushing, drowsiness”
: Beard,
American Nervousness,
7–8.

 

91
   
“modern civilization”
: Ibid., 96.

 

92
   
“agnostic philosophy”
: Ibid., 123–25.

 

92
   
“Of our fifty millions”
: Ibid., 97.

 

92
   
Sooner or later
: Ibid., 99.

 

93
   
If a physician
: Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” 1.

 

93
   
“I have no confidence”
: Richardson,
William James,
400–401.

 

94
   
it had “become marginal”
: Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 144.

 

94
   
“days when real science”
: Meyer, “Presidential Address,” 3.

 

95
   
Psychiatry became real
: Ibid., 20–21.

 

95
   
“The great mistake”
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 4.

 

95
   
“commonsense psychiatry
”: Lidz, “Adolf Meyer,” 323.

 

96
   
Kraepelin’s manic-depressive insanity
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 163.

 

96
   “
constitutional depression”
: Jackson,
Melancholia and Depression
, 196–97.

 

97
   
There are conditions
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 175.

 

97
   
“normal depression”
: Jackson,
Melancholia and Depression
, 200.

 

98
   “
the
person himself”
: Ibid.

 

98
   
“brain mythology”
: Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 134.

 

98
   
“the dominant figure”
: Zilboorg and Henry,
History of Medical Psychology
, 502–3.

 

98
   
The physician can offer
: Quoted in Jackson,
Melancholia and Depression
, 200.

 

99
   
“a second-rate thinker”
: Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 111–12.

 

99
   
“acquiring a Main Street beachhead”
: Ibid., 161.

 

99
   
Give me a dozen healthy infants
: Watson,
Behaviorism
, 82.

 

100
   
And Bernays
: Lears, “From Salvation to Self-Realization,” 20.

 

100
   
“therapeutic ethos”
: Ibid., 23.

 

100
   
the mental hygiene movement
: Beers,
The Mind That Found Itself
. For Meyer’s view, see Meyer,
Commonsense Psychiatry
, 312. Also Shorter,
History of Psychiatry
, 161.

 

CHAPTER 6

 

Page

103
   
rejection sensitive
: See Kramer,
Listening to Prozac
, 67–77, 87–107.

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