A01=Katja Guenther
Author_Katja Guenther
biology
carl wernicke
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clinical work
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institutional analysis
medical history
motor functions
nervous system
neuro disciplines
neurological medicine
neurology
neuropsychiatry
neurosciences
neurosurgeons
otfrid foerster
pathological anatomy
paul schilder
psychiatry
psychoanalysis
psychoanalysts
psychology
reflex therapy
sigmund freud
spoken word
theodor meynert
therapeutic practice
wilder penfield
Product details
- ISBN 9780226288208
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 08 Dec 2015
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus-the scalpel, the electrode-to probe the workings of the nervous system, and in so doing have radically reshaped our understanding of the brain. Both operate in vastly different institutional and cultural contexts. Given these differences, it is remarkable that both fields found resources for their development in the same tradition of late nineteenth-century German medicine: neuropsychiatry. In Localization and Its Discontents, Katja Guenther investigates the significance of this common history, drawing on extensive archival research in seven countries, institutional analysis, and close examination of the practical conditions of scientific and clinical work. Her remarkable accomplishment not only reframes the history of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines, but also offers us new ways of thinking about their future.
Katja Guenther is assistant professor of the history of science at Princeton University. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
