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‘A plastic power ministering to organisation’: interpretations of the mind–body relation in late nineteenth-century British psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Michael J. Clark
Michael J. Clark*
Affiliation:
Linacre College, Oxford
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1Address for correspondence: Dr M. J. Clark, 27 Bridgewood Road, Worcester Park, Surrey.
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Synopsis

Late nineteenth-century medico-psychological approaches to the mind–body problem are discussed in relation to psychiatry's theoretical constitution as a distinct ‘mind–body’ science and practice, and to John Hughlings Jackson's ‘doctrine of concomitance’. Psychiatric ‘explanations’ of the mind–body relation are interpreted as expressions of psychiatry's independent professional interests vis-à-vis neurology and general medicine.

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Research Article
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , August 1983 , pp. 487 - 497
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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