The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1870–1970

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Conflicting models of selfhood have become central to debates over modern medicine. Yet we still lack a clear historical account of how this psychological sensibility came to be established. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880–1970 will remedy this situation by demonstrating that there is nothing inevitable about the current connection between health, identity and personal history. It traces the changing conception of the psyche in Britain over the last two centuries and it demonstrates how these changes were rooted in transformed patterns of medical care. The shifts from private medicine through to National Insurance and the National Health Service fostered different kinds of relationship between doctor and patient and different understandings of psychological distress. The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880–1970 examines these transformations and, in so doing, provides new critical insights into our modern sense of identity and changing notions of health that will be of great value to anyone interested in the modern history of British medicine. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1 The Emergence of the Unconscious 1 Myths of origins 2 A new approach 3 The unconscious and the presence of the past 4 From expectation to memory 5 French experiments in psychological healing 6 The uptake of psychological healing in British medical practice 7 Popular literature and the new witchcraft 8 Late Victorian psychotherapy 9 Conclusion Chapter 2 The Healing Power of History 1 Psychology and the fabric of things 2 General practice and the rise of the extended self 3 The forensic culture of the extended self 4 Litigation, shock and the extended self 5 The material culture of the extended self 6 Electrophysiology and the extended self 7 The extended self and World War I 8 Psychological eclecticism 9 Rival doxa: The Medical Society for Individual Psychology 10 Institutional control of interpretation: The psychoanalytic establishment 11 A new kind of doctor: A new kind of patient 12 Arthur Watts and the making of the general practitioner psychiatrist Chapter 3 The Social Consciousness 1 The age of anxiety 2 Stephen Taylor and the case history of Mrs Everyman 3 Suburban ethology 4 Surveillance medicine and psychiatric morbidity 5 Making social pathology visible: The Peckham Experiment 6 ‘My God Everyone’s in Hospital’: The emergence of the psychosocial 7 Doctors of society: Psychological reconstruction and World War II 8 The National Health Service and the new psychiatry 9 Harlow: A socio-psychiatric experiment 10 The reflexive logic of the psychiatric survey Chapter 4 The Anxiety of Influence 1 Medicine and the art of living 2 Imagining influence 3 The infectious personality of the physician 4 The infectious physician as a basis for ethics 5 Insulating the physician 6 The exemplary physician 7 The personality of the doctor 8 The project of therapeutic friendship Chapter 5 Placebo and the Problem of Truth 1 A different theatre and a different truth 2 Irony and rival systems of truth Notes Preface Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Bibliography Archives Official publications Other reports Primary periodicals and newspapers Books and Articles Unpublished theses and dissertations Index