CONTENTS
1 Cover
6 Introduction: The Ends of a Diagnosis If You Want a Label Carving Nature at Its Joints The End of a Diagnosis? A Difference in Kind or in Degree? Madness from Antiquity to the Present Day Notes
7 1. From the Bible to Bleuler Prophets or Beasts? Madness in the Bible Unsacred Brains and Untamed Horses: Madness in Greco-Roman Texts Holy and Unholy Madness in Medieval Times Early Modern Madness: God, Satan, Witches, and Poison Modern Madness: A Disease Entity, a Natural Kind Psychiatric Classification and the Making of Schizophrenia Notes
8 2. The Birth of “the Schizophrenias” More than a “Renamer”: Paul Eugen Bleuler The Birth of the Schizophrenias Notes
9 3. Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia Freud’s Analysis of Schreber: Strangeness Made Familiar Beyond the Schreber Case Freud’s Dual Legacy Melanie Klein and Her Legacy Psychoanalysis in Psychiatric Hospitals Notes
10 4. A Moving Target The Psychiatric Bible DSM-I (1952): Schizophrenic Reactions DSM-II (1968): From Reaction to Disease DSM-III (1980): Narrowing Down the Concept of Schizophrenia DSM-III-R (1987): Schizophrenia, in the Singular DSM-IV (1994): Broadening the Concept of Schizophrenia Transition Toward the Spectrum of Schizophrenia DSM-5 (2013): Shifting the Paradigm, the Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders A Moving Target Notes
11 5. Hearing Voices Hearing Voices in the Ancient World Women and Voice-Hearing in Medieval Times The Renaissance and Onward to the Protestant Reformation Hearing Voices and Modern Psychiatry The Role of Culture Listening to the Voices A New Identity: The Voice-Hearer Notes
12 6. Stigma and the Problem of Naming Schizophrenia as “Life Unworthy of Life”: The Aktion T-4 Program A Dangerous Diagnosis Self-Stigma “Schizophrenic Skins:” Racial Stigma The Case of “Sluggish Schizophrenia” in the Soviet Union Moving Forward: Possible Solutions Minding Our Words: Considering a Name Change From Split Mind to Integration Disorder: A Terminological Change in East Asia From Schizophrenia to “Salience Disorder”: Renaming the Diagnosis in Europe and the United States Dropping the Term “Schizophrenia”: The Case of the ISPS Towards the Future: A Destigmatizing Story Notes
13 7. The Ethics of a Diagnosis Notes
14 Index