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FEUCHTERSLEBEN, ERNST FREIHERRN VON (1806-1849), Principles of Medical Psychology: Being the Outlines of a Course of Lectures by Baron Ernst von Feuchtersleben, M.D. (Vienna, 1845).
NY: Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, Division of Gryphon Editions, Inc. 1995. [First published 1845 in German in Vienna.] [2]+xx+392+[2]pp. Tooled red morocco with gilt edges and marbled endpapers. A very fine copy. Facsimile reprint of the London 1847 Sydenham Society edition. The first book published in Austria dealing with medical psychology and psychopathology, which introduced the terms psychosis, psychiatric, and psychopathology. Weight: 1 pound 10.0 ounces = 740 grams. Size: 9.1 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches = 22.8 x 14.5 x 3cm. A key book in the history of psychiatry "which not only introduced into psychiatry a new standard and a new methodology, but also a number of terms which came to stay" [Hunter & Macalpine p. 952]. The terms 'psychosis', 'psychopathology' and 'psychiatric practitioner' [ie, 'psychiatrist'] all were given their modern meanings in Feuchtersleben's book and subsequently diffused through the psychiatric literature. The "founder of psychosomatic medicine as a systematic discipline ... (Feuchtersleben) gave articulate expression to the principle that man is a psychophysical totality". (Roback. (1961), p. 282). Straddling the split in psychiatry between physiology and psychology, Feuchtersleben both championed the use of psychotherapy with the mentally diseased (a method he called "second education") and insisted that psychosis always entailed disturbed physical function. Binding: HB.
Offered for US$ 85.00 by: John Gach Books - Book number: 038616
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