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The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2001
His tory of Psy chia try The Fa ther Of Ca na dian Psychia try, Jo seph Work man. Chris tine IM J... more His tory of Psy chia try The Fa ther Of Ca na dian Psychia try, Jo seph Work man. Chris tine IM John ston. Vic to ria (BC): Og den Press; 2000. 198 p. Re view by Pe ter Faux, MD, FRCP Bramp ton, On tario 656 The Ca na dian Jour nal of Psy chia try Vol 46, No 7
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
Mikkel Berch-Jacobsen's 1982 book, "The Freudian Subject" is now available in Engli... more Mikkel Berch-Jacobsen's 1982 book, "The Freudian Subject" is now available in English. Acknowledging a debt to many including Hegel and Lacan, he develops his philosophy of the self as a search through identification with the other for itself a process that can and does lead to the double with its inherent Frankenstein. In a series of four essays, he shows Freud to be lacking in his philosophy and rewrites Freud in his philosophy. In Dramatis Personae he dispels the notion of repression of sexual "non gratis" as forming the unconscious and claims the unconscious is the true self that can only be known in consciousness as the other. The unconscious is plural and not to be identified. In Dreams are Completely Egoistic the wish-fulfillment theory of dreams according to Freud is changed to "A Fulfillment of Destiny" (48 pp.). The dream is identification: it is the ego trying to identify the unconscious which is then distorted into the other. In Ecce Ego, what was Freud's narcissism becomes "Self, The Gloomy Tyrant" (80 pp.), As the self searches out the other then rivalry and hostility are provoked as the other is viewed as too close. However, Jacobsen goes beyond or into the self and claims there is then the fiction or the myth. The Primal Band is his longest and concluding essay. He accepts Freud's myth in "Moses and Monotheism" (1) but reframes it as the story of the absolute self or subject. In the beginning, is the absolute subject, who after undergoing parricide, is imagined back to life by the poet Freud. Hence, analysis is his dream, he is our subject. Jacobsen requires reading, re-reading,' and again rereading. While what he writes is a well worded philosophical argument that flows straight at the Freudian mark, it is hard to swallow and assimilate. Lacan interpreted Freud, Jacobsen does away with him. Hegel offered synthesis, Jacobsen gives us the clinical and philosophical in tension without resolution. He is not for clinicians. However, his book is modestly priced. It has style and message. I would recommend it for those psychiatrists who feel they could do with a "shakeup" in their thinking.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The act of getting inside requires starting from the outside. Historians are outside their subjec... more The act of getting inside requires starting from the outside. Historians are outside their subjects in time. Analysts are outside their analysands in space. Dr. Arthur Kleinman is an American psychiatrist who spent 20 years in the study of psychiatry in China, India and Indonesia. From his outside vantage, he has entered the inside of DSM-III American psychiatry in Rethinking Psychiatry. His book is a series of seven questions, one per chapter, that probe the story that is American psychiatry. While never giving pat answers, he does provide a direction that readers can use in answering their own questions about their profession. The story of DSM-III psychiatry unfolds into a stampede to get inside the brain and leave outside the psychosocial-cultural-personal. Kleinman claims the prior trinity of the biological, clinical, and psychosocial that was the cornerstone of psychiatry has been replaced by the biomedical. He predicts that soon symbolic healing, listening to the patient's story, and holism will be delegated to the mushrooming para-psychiatric professionals. Ironically, Western psychiatry, rather than leading the way for non Western psychiatry that treats 80% of the globe, will be together in the same biological boat, except that it will be more clinically sophisticated. The direction that Kleinman stresses is a return to both the psychosocial and the biological, a cultural appreciation of illness in diagnosis, and a blending of the patient's story and biomedicine. He advocates a move for psychiatry more in the direction of psychiatrists' and their patients' culture and recommends teaching of the psychosocial to all residents. Despite what he says, his book cannot be read in two nights. It is too in-depth. He brings together a reference-laden text (there is a 34 page bibliography) and on-site clinical interviews from America, China and India. He is at his best when he is telling stories; his own and others'. This gives his book an unforgettable impact. Unfortunately he is too reticent with his inside stories. Overall the impression he leaves is not so much emotionally agitating as thoughtprovoking. His work is refreshing reading for those of us trained in Canada prior to DSM-III, and a must for those trained after DSM-III.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1993
is a Professor of Psychology at Queen's University, with a background in literature, philosophy a... more is a Professor of Psychology at Queen's University, with a background in literature, philosophy and neuropsychology. His remarkable and, I believe, important book puts forward a paleontology of the human intellect, an element missing in psychological research when in these days the biological sciences find the evolutionary dimension indispensable. The "three stages" of the book are quantum shifts in cognitive style and power as our ancestors speculated, new species took over and cultural innovations complemented increases in brain size; all this at an exponentially accelerating rate of change. Cognition, Donald asserts, can only be understood as both catalyst and product of interacting human groups: hence culture is always its context and complementary reflection. With each evolutionary stage, previous styles become embedded in the later, not lost or abandoned.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1991
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
This book, published under the auspices of the World Psychiatric Association, is the second editi... more This book, published under the auspices of the World Psychiatric Association, is the second edition of the 1993 work published under the title "Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenic and affective psychoses". The present edition includes the addition of two categories of mental disorders, schizoaffective psychoses and delusional (paranoid) psychoses. During the VII World Congress of Psychiatry in 1983 in Vienna (my Alma Mater where I qualified and lectured without, however, being rendered biased), I witnessed the criticism aimed at the then fairly new DSM-III, in oral presentations, in writing and in personal communications. Professor Berner, then Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Vienna and Professor Katschnig, now his successor, were in the forefront of this academic struggle, and it was only natural that they and their staff undertook the task of critically reviewing the operational criteria for diagnosis in psychiatry from Kraepelin to the present. The diagnostic criteria for each of the four
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1992
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1992
This tape will be of particular benefit to anyone who wants to learn the art of self-hypnosis. It... more This tape will be of particular benefit to anyone who wants to learn the art of self-hypnosis. It could also be of use to the psychiatrist who wishes his or her patients to practise hypnotic techniques at home. The tape is easy to listen to and well explained. The important points are clearly highlighted, although at times it is difficult to tell whether the narrator is explaining something or going through a hypnotic induction technique. At $12.95 it is competitively priced and compares favourably with the many commercially available tapes on the same topic that are available.
The American Historical Review, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1996
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2001
His tory of Psy chia try The Fa ther Of Ca na dian Psychia try, Jo seph Work man. Chris tine IM J... more His tory of Psy chia try The Fa ther Of Ca na dian Psychia try, Jo seph Work man. Chris tine IM John ston. Vic to ria (BC): Og den Press; 2000. 198 p. Re view by Pe ter Faux, MD, FRCP Bramp ton, On tario 656 The Ca na dian Jour nal of Psy chia try Vol 46, No 7
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
Mikkel Berch-Jacobsen's 1982 book, "The Freudian Subject" is now available in Engli... more Mikkel Berch-Jacobsen's 1982 book, "The Freudian Subject" is now available in English. Acknowledging a debt to many including Hegel and Lacan, he develops his philosophy of the self as a search through identification with the other for itself a process that can and does lead to the double with its inherent Frankenstein. In a series of four essays, he shows Freud to be lacking in his philosophy and rewrites Freud in his philosophy. In Dramatis Personae he dispels the notion of repression of sexual "non gratis" as forming the unconscious and claims the unconscious is the true self that can only be known in consciousness as the other. The unconscious is plural and not to be identified. In Dreams are Completely Egoistic the wish-fulfillment theory of dreams according to Freud is changed to "A Fulfillment of Destiny" (48 pp.). The dream is identification: it is the ego trying to identify the unconscious which is then distorted into the other. In Ecce Ego, what was Freud's narcissism becomes "Self, The Gloomy Tyrant" (80 pp.), As the self searches out the other then rivalry and hostility are provoked as the other is viewed as too close. However, Jacobsen goes beyond or into the self and claims there is then the fiction or the myth. The Primal Band is his longest and concluding essay. He accepts Freud's myth in "Moses and Monotheism" (1) but reframes it as the story of the absolute self or subject. In the beginning, is the absolute subject, who after undergoing parricide, is imagined back to life by the poet Freud. Hence, analysis is his dream, he is our subject. Jacobsen requires reading, re-reading,' and again rereading. While what he writes is a well worded philosophical argument that flows straight at the Freudian mark, it is hard to swallow and assimilate. Lacan interpreted Freud, Jacobsen does away with him. Hegel offered synthesis, Jacobsen gives us the clinical and philosophical in tension without resolution. He is not for clinicians. However, his book is modestly priced. It has style and message. I would recommend it for those psychiatrists who feel they could do with a "shakeup" in their thinking.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The act of getting inside requires starting from the outside. Historians are outside their subjec... more The act of getting inside requires starting from the outside. Historians are outside their subjects in time. Analysts are outside their analysands in space. Dr. Arthur Kleinman is an American psychiatrist who spent 20 years in the study of psychiatry in China, India and Indonesia. From his outside vantage, he has entered the inside of DSM-III American psychiatry in Rethinking Psychiatry. His book is a series of seven questions, one per chapter, that probe the story that is American psychiatry. While never giving pat answers, he does provide a direction that readers can use in answering their own questions about their profession. The story of DSM-III psychiatry unfolds into a stampede to get inside the brain and leave outside the psychosocial-cultural-personal. Kleinman claims the prior trinity of the biological, clinical, and psychosocial that was the cornerstone of psychiatry has been replaced by the biomedical. He predicts that soon symbolic healing, listening to the patient's story, and holism will be delegated to the mushrooming para-psychiatric professionals. Ironically, Western psychiatry, rather than leading the way for non Western psychiatry that treats 80% of the globe, will be together in the same biological boat, except that it will be more clinically sophisticated. The direction that Kleinman stresses is a return to both the psychosocial and the biological, a cultural appreciation of illness in diagnosis, and a blending of the patient's story and biomedicine. He advocates a move for psychiatry more in the direction of psychiatrists' and their patients' culture and recommends teaching of the psychosocial to all residents. Despite what he says, his book cannot be read in two nights. It is too in-depth. He brings together a reference-laden text (there is a 34 page bibliography) and on-site clinical interviews from America, China and India. He is at his best when he is telling stories; his own and others'. This gives his book an unforgettable impact. Unfortunately he is too reticent with his inside stories. Overall the impression he leaves is not so much emotionally agitating as thoughtprovoking. His work is refreshing reading for those of us trained in Canada prior to DSM-III, and a must for those trained after DSM-III.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1993
is a Professor of Psychology at Queen's University, with a background in literature, philosophy a... more is a Professor of Psychology at Queen's University, with a background in literature, philosophy and neuropsychology. His remarkable and, I believe, important book puts forward a paleontology of the human intellect, an element missing in psychological research when in these days the biological sciences find the evolutionary dimension indispensable. The "three stages" of the book are quantum shifts in cognitive style and power as our ancestors speculated, new species took over and cultural innovations complemented increases in brain size; all this at an exponentially accelerating rate of change. Cognition, Donald asserts, can only be understood as both catalyst and product of interacting human groups: hence culture is always its context and complementary reflection. With each evolutionary stage, previous styles become embedded in the later, not lost or abandoned.
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1991
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
This book, published under the auspices of the World Psychiatric Association, is the second editi... more This book, published under the auspices of the World Psychiatric Association, is the second edition of the 1993 work published under the title "Diagnostic criteria for schizophrenic and affective psychoses". The present edition includes the addition of two categories of mental disorders, schizoaffective psychoses and delusional (paranoid) psychoses. During the VII World Congress of Psychiatry in 1983 in Vienna (my Alma Mater where I qualified and lectured without, however, being rendered biased), I witnessed the criticism aimed at the then fairly new DSM-III, in oral presentations, in writing and in personal communications. Professor Berner, then Head of the Department of Psychiatry, University of Vienna and Professor Katschnig, now his successor, were in the forefront of this academic struggle, and it was only natural that they and their staff undertook the task of critically reviewing the operational criteria for diagnosis in psychiatry from Kraepelin to the present. The diagnostic criteria for each of the four
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1992
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1994
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1992
This tape will be of particular benefit to anyone who wants to learn the art of self-hypnosis. It... more This tape will be of particular benefit to anyone who wants to learn the art of self-hypnosis. It could also be of use to the psychiatrist who wishes his or her patients to practise hypnotic techniques at home. The tape is easy to listen to and well explained. The important points are clearly highlighted, although at times it is difficult to tell whether the narrator is explaining something or going through a hypnotic induction technique. At $12.95 it is competitively priced and compares favourably with the many commercially available tapes on the same topic that are available.
The American Historical Review, 1989
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1996