Entry Nos. 4900–4999
90 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1901 CE
#4952
Einführung in die psychiatrische Klinik.
Kraepelin evolved a new classification of insanity. He introduced the concepts “dementia praecox” and “manic-depressive insanity”. (Regarding the latter, see also No. 4932.)
1903 CE
#4953
Hygiene der Nerven und des Geistes im gesunden und kranken Zustande.
English translation, New York, 1907.
1903 CE
#4954
Les obsessions et la psychasthénie.
Janet was the first to describe psychasthenia.
1903 CE
#4955
Sopra un’ alterazione del corpo calloso osservata in soggetti alcoolisti.
Marchiafava–Bignami disease – degeneration of the corpus callosum in alcoholism.
1907 CE
#4956
Ueber eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde.
“Alzheimer’s disease” –presenile dementia. Preliminary note in Neurol. Zbl., 1906, 25, 1134. English translation in Arch. neurol., 1969, 21, 109-110, and in K. Bick (ed.) The early story of Alz…
1911 CE
#4957
Dementia praecox Oder die Gruppe der Schizophrenien.
Bleuler introduced the concept of schizophrenia. He showed that Kraepelin’s “dementia praecox” (No. 4952) should include all the schizophrenic disorders. Translated into English by Joseph Zinkin as D…
1928 CE
#4958
Mongolism. A study of the physical and mental characteristics of mongolian imbeciles. Revised by H. G. Brainerd.
Down syndrome.
1931 CE
#4959
Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.
Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.
1934 CE
#4960
Schizophreniebehandlung mittels Insulin-Hypoglykämie sowie hypoglykämischer Schocks.
Insulin shock therapy of schizophrenia. Sakel wrote several subsequent papers on this subject in the same journal. English version in Amer. J. Psychiat., 1937, 93, 829-41.
1935 CE
#4961
Versuche über die biologische Beeinflussung des Ablaufes der Schizophrenic. 1. Campher-und Cardiazolkrämpfe.
Cardiazol (metrazol) convulsion therapy of schizophrenia was introduced by Meduna in 1934.
1938 CE
#4962
Un nuovo metodo di shockterapia: “L’elettroshock”. (Riassunto.)
Introduction of electric convulsion therapy.
1575 CE
#4964
Examen de ingenios para las ciencias.
Huarte was a distinguished Spanish physician and psychologist. His Examen, which gained for him a European reputation, was the first attempt to show the connection between psychology and physiology. English translatio…
1649 CE
#4965
Des passions de l’âme.
Descartes believed the soul to be a definite entity, giving rise to thoughts, feelings, and acts of volition. He was one of the first to regard the brain as an organ integrating the functions of mind and body. English…
1690 CE
#4967
An essay concerning humane understanding.
Locke, a physician, laid the foundation of modern psychology. For two centuries the principles laid down by him were unquestioned. The writing of the Essay occupied him on and off for twenty years.
1754 CE
#4968
Traité des sensations. 2 vols.
Condillac considered that we perceive only what our senses supply in the form of sensations: the “real being” of things is beyond us. English translation, London, 1930.
1798 CE
#4969
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst.
Kant attempted a classification of mental diseases.
1852 CE
#4970
Medicinische Psychologie, oder Physiologie der Seele.
Lotze was a pioneer in the investigation of unconscious and subconscious states.
1860 CE
#4972
Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.
The first treatise on the subject. Fechner applied the laws of mathematical physics to the physiology of sensation. He discussed the functional relations of the dependence between mind and body and investigated the cu…
1862 CE
#4973
Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions applicable à la pratique des arts plastiques. Premier fascicule. [All published]. 1 volume of text plus atlas of photographs by Duchenne.
Duchenne studied the mechanism of facial expression during emotion; his atlas of photographs was the first medical book illustrated with photographs of living subjects. Darwin reproduced a number of his photographs in…
1868 CE
#4974
Die Schnelligkeit psychischer Prozesse.
Donders was the first to measure the reaction-time of a psychical process.
1872 CE
#4975
The expression of the emotions in man and animals.
Darwin examined the causes, physiological and psychological, of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that “the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now …
1873 CE–1874 CE
#4976
Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie. 2 pts.
Wundt made experimental investigations of normal individual reactions, reflex responses, and general behavior, and interpreted them in terms of neural mechanisms. He was the founder of experimental psychology, and his…
1895 CE
#4978
Studien über Hysterie.
The foundation of psychoanalysis. Using what they called the cathartic method, in which hysterical patients were made to describe the manifestations of their symptoms in detail, with or without hypnosis, Breuer and Fr…
1900 CE
#4980
Die Traumdeutung.
Freud’s greatest work, the influence of which has been felt far beyond the psychiatric and medical community. Here he refined his understanding of the operation of the unconscious, interpreted dreams on the basi…
1900 CE–1928 CE
#4981
Studies in the psychology of sex. 7 vols.
Ellis's Studies represent a lifetime of research devoted to the subject, at first in the face of bitter opposition.
1904 CE
#4982
Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens.
An exposition of psychoanalytic theory for a popular audience. Includes description and examples of the well-known “Freudian slip”. English translation, London, 1914.
1905 CE
#4983
Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie.
The work which Freud considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud’s epochal theory of infantile sexuality linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infanc…
1907 CE
#4984
Studie über Minderwertigkeit von Organen.
Adler, a disciple of Freud, introduced the concept of the inferiority complex and the method of compensation needed to overcome it.
1911 CE
#4985
La mesure du développement de l’intelligence chez les jeunes enfants.
Binet–Simon intelligence tests. As early as 1895 Binet had published a plan for studying intelligence. English translation, 1912.
1917 CE
#4986
The Stanford revision and extension of the Binet–Simon scale for measuring intelligence.
1919 CE
#4987
Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.
Watson was the principal exponent of behaviorist psychology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1921 CE
#4988
Körperbau und Charakter.
Kretschmer has attempted to correlate body build and constitution with character and mentality.
1923 CE
#4990
La médecine psychologique.
Janet’s summary of his work with hypnosis, including one of the most detailed histories of hypnosis available. English translation, as Psychological healing, 2 vols., 1925.
1929 CE
#4991
Gestalt psychology.
1666 CE
#4992
A brief account of Mr Valentine Greatrakes, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed. Written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq., 1666.
The earliest scientific account, by a practitioner, and corroborated by witnesses, of healing by the “laying-on of hands”. Greatrakes became known as “the Irish stroker” because of his method o…
1843 CE
#4993
Neurypnology, or, the rationale of nervous sleep.
Braid inaugurated modern hypnotism, the word itself being introduced by him. His theories were adopted by Broca, Charcot, Liébeault, and Bernheim; thus he founded the French School. New edition, edited with an …
1866 CE
#4994
Le sommeil et les états analogues considérés sur au point du vue de I’action du moral et de physique.
The substitution of psychotherapy for hypnotic suggestion starts with the work of Liébeault. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1872 CE–1887 CE
#4995
Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière. 3 vols.
Charcot’s pioneering research on the application of hypnosis to the psychoneuroses brought this subject to the attention of the scientific community.
1888 CE
#4996
Der Hypnotismus und die suggestive Psychotherapie.
1891 CE
#4998