HSCI-E179 Madness, Mind, and Brain: A Cultural History of Psychiatry and Neurology Instructor: Susan Lanzoni, Ph.D.

By Benedict Carey Published: December 17, 2008 The book is at least three years away from publication, but it is already stirring bitter debates over a new set of possible psychiatric disorders. Is compulsive shopping a mental problem? Do children who continually recoil from sights and sounds suffer from sensory problems — or just need extra attention? Should a fetish be considered a mental disorder, as many now are? Panels of psychiatrists are hashing out just such questions, and their answers — to be published in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — will have consequences for insurance reimbursement, research and individuals’ psychological identity for years to come.

Mind and Psychlogical Sciences as: “ techniques for the disciplining of human difference: individualizing humans through classifying then calibrating their capacities and conducts, inscribing and recording their attributes and deficiencies, managing and utilizing their individuality and variability.” Nikolas Rose, Inventing Ourselves (1998) p. 105

Aristotelian Souls: nutritive soul (possessed by plants) sensitive soul (animals) rational soul (possessed exclusively by humans)

Hippocrates (c. 460 BC- 380 BC) “ON THE SACRED DISEASE”

SANGUINE (blood) LYMPHATIC (phlegm) BILIOUS (yellow bile) NERVOUS (black bile)

SANGUINE CHOLERIC PHLEGMATIC MELANCHOLIC

Albrecht Durer’s Melancholia (1514)

THEMES in the History of Psychiatry/Neurology 1) representations of mind 2) places where science is enacted or practiced 3) methods, tools and technologies 4) popular appeal 5) experiential aspects 6) gendered, ethnic and racial implications 7) practical and moral concerns

Phrenological Heads Diagram from W. Mattieu Williams, A Vindication of Phrenology. London, Taken from

Cortical thickness differences in autism Hadjikhani et al. Cerebral Cortex 2005 Nouchine Hadjikhani MartinosSCAN 2007