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Race, alcohol and general paralysis: Emil Kraepelin’s comparative psychiatry and his trips to Java (1904) and North America (1925) (2018)

Engstrom, Eric J. (Author)
Crozier, Ivan (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 29
Issue: 3
Pages: 263-281
Publication date: 2018
Language: English

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X18770601

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X18770601

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Colonialism Clinical psychology Lamarckism Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence Psychiatry 20th century, early United States Java (Indonesia) Kraepelin, Emil

This article examines Emil Kraepelin’s notion of comparative psychiatry and relates it to the clinical research he conducted at psychiatric hospitals in South-East Asia (1904) and the USA (1925). It argues that his research fits awkwardly within the common historiographic narratives of colonial psychiatry. It also disputes claims that his work can be interpreted meaningfully as the fons et origio of transcultural psychiatry. Instead, it argues that his comparative psychiatry was part of a larger neo-Lamarckian project of clinical epidemiology and was thus primarily a reflection of his own long-standing diagnostic practices and research agendas. However, the hospitals in Java and America exposed the institutional constraints and limitations of those practices and agendas.

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