Book ID: CBB492057550

Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines (2015)

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Guenther, Katja (Author)


University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2015
Language: English


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 319 pages

Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus—the scalpel, the electrode—to probe the workings of the nervous system, and in so doing have radically reshaped our understanding of the brain. Both operate in vastly different institutional and cultural contexts. Given these differences, it is remarkable that both fields found resources for their development in the same tradition of late nineteenth-century German medicine: neuropsychiatry. In Localization and Its Discontents, Katja Guenther investigates the significance of this common history, drawing on extensive archival research in seven countries, institutional analysis, and close examination of the practical conditions of scientific and clinical work. Her remarkable accomplishment not only reframes the history of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines, but also offers us new ways of thinking about their future.

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Review Camille Robcis (2017) Review of "Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines". American Historical Review (pp. 800-801). unapi

Review Sean Dyde (2016) Review of "Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 105-108). unapi

Essay Review Alfred Freeborn (2019) The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences. History of the Human Sciences (pp. 145-154). unapi

Review Charles G. Gross (2017) Review of "Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines". Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (pp. 98-100). unapi

Review Chantal Marazia (2018) Review of "Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 109-110). unapi

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Review Susan Lamb (2016) Review of "Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 735-737). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Asaro, Peter M.
Barbara, Jean-Gaël
Bartolucci, Chiara
Boller, François
Budge, Gavin
Degni, Silvia
Journals
History of the Human Sciences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
History of Psychology
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Publishers
Elsevier
Mimesis
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Wallstein Verlag
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Concepts
Neurosciences
Psychology
Medicine
Brain
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
People
Freud, Sigmund
Buccola, Gabriele
Darwin, Erasmus
Deleuze, Gilles
Gage, Phineas
Morselli, Enrico
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
Places
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Paris (France)
United States
Institutions
Salpêtrière, Paris
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