Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Inspecting Great Britain: German Psychiatrists' Views of British Asylums in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Permeating National Boundaries: European and American Influences on the Emergence of “Medico-Pedagogy” in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- 3 Organizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903–1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy
- 4 Germany and the Making of “English” Psychiatry: The Maudsley Hospital, 1908–1939
- 5 Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I
- 6 “Beyond the Clinical Frontiers”: The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910–1945
- 7 Mental Hygiene in Britain during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Limits of International Influence
- 8 Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920–1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887–1973)
- 9 Explorations of Scottish, German, and American Psychiatry: The Work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the Treatment of Noncertifiable Mental Disorders in England, 1899–1939
- 10 Welsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources
- 11 Alien Psychiatrists: The British Assimilation of Psychiatric Refugees, 1930–1950
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
5 - Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Inspecting Great Britain: German Psychiatrists' Views of British Asylums in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Permeating National Boundaries: European and American Influences on the Emergence of “Medico-Pedagogy” in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- 3 Organizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903–1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy
- 4 Germany and the Making of “English” Psychiatry: The Maudsley Hospital, 1908–1939
- 5 Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I
- 6 “Beyond the Clinical Frontiers”: The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910–1945
- 7 Mental Hygiene in Britain during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Limits of International Influence
- 8 Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920–1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887–1973)
- 9 Explorations of Scottish, German, and American Psychiatry: The Work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the Treatment of Noncertifiable Mental Disorders in England, 1899–1939
- 10 Welsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources
- 11 Alien Psychiatrists: The British Assimilation of Psychiatric Refugees, 1930–1950
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
To see how the transnational history of psychiatry worked out in concrete terms, perhaps no better example exists than the American neurologist, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst Smith Ely Jelliffe (1866–1945). In his medical and publishing activities, Jelliffe exemplified patterns that marked the ways in which Americans reacted to German psychiatry in the first four decades of the twentieth century. Jelliffe is of special interest because he was both a key observer and an actor in the transfer of medical findings between the Old World and the New. As late as 1946, a colleague described Jelliffe and Adolf Meyer as the two links “between the psychiatrists of Europe and the United States.”
Jelliffe's activities, moreover, furnish striking evidence of the fundamental change in knowledge transfer that followed World War I—a change that historians have heretofore appreciated but little. One general development in international relationships marked the twentieth century: increasing American independence and insularity in the field of medicine. In the nineteenth century, American medicine was overwhelmingly derivative, transmitted largely from France and then from Germany—and the continental material was often conveyed through British publications. By the middle of the twentieth century, however, American physicians appeared to know or care little about medical developments elsewhere in the world. It is this transition from external dependence to self-sustaining independence and extraordinary provincialism that Jelliffe exemplified or inadvertently highlighted in his publishing endeavors.
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- International Relations in PsychiatryBritain, Germany, and the United States to World War II, pp. 91 - 110Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010