More About Psychiatry

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-19173-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Psychology Revivals

Originally published in 1951, More About Psychiatry invites readers deeper into the evolving world of psychiatry. Writing with clarity, compassion, and a deep respect for the human mind, Binger demystifies the psychiatric profession for the general reader, offering insights into the emotional and psychological struggles that shaped people’s lives at the time.

Drawing on real-world cases and decades of clinical experience, Binger explores the roots of mental illness, the role of the psychiatrist, and the therapeutic relationship between doctor and patient. He addresses common misconceptions, the impact of early life experiences, and the growing importance of mental health in modern society. Today it can be read in its historical context.

This book is a re-issue originally published in 1951. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.

Zielgruppe

Adult education, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Binger, Carl

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword. Acknowledgments. 1. The Doctor’s Dilemma 2. Psychosomatic Medicine 3. The Mind and the Heart 4. Psychotherapy in Arterial Hypertension 5. What Can We Learn from a Medical History 6. The Concerns of Psychiatry 7. Anxiety 8. Psychoanalysis 9. What is Mental Health? 10. On Choosing a Mate 11. Why the Professor Fell Out of Bed 12. Medical Information and Misinformation 13. New Partnerships for Psychiatry 14. The Last Best Hope of Earth. Bibliography and Notes. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Carl Binger (1889–1976) was an American psychiatrist and the author of articles and books about the practice of medicine. Binger grew up in New York City and attended Harvard College (1906) and Harvard Medical School (1914), after which he served as a doctor in World War I and in a Red Cross mission to combat a Typhus epidemic in Macedonia. During the 1920s he was a research pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute, where he became interested in the psychological aspects of illness and health. Binger then studied psychiatry in London, Heidelberg and, in Zurich, under Dr. Carl Jung and registered as a psychiatrist in 1946. He gave psychiatric evidence as a defense witness in the 1949 Alger Hiss trials. Binger was professor of clinical psychiatry at the Cornell University Medical School, and later consultant in psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a founder of the American Psychosomatic Society and editor in chief of Psychosomatic Medicine.