Table of Contents

AntiquityThe Middle AgesThe RenaissanceThe Scientific Revolution and the Beginnings of Modern PhilosophyThe Eighteenth Century: The Age of Enlightenment and ReasonThe Nineteenth Century: Vitalist-Mechanist and Psychic-Somatic ControversiesPositivist Reaction: The Rise of Modern Organic PsychiatryThe Twentieth Century: Modern Psychiatry is BornThe Constitutional Psychiatry of Ernst KretschmerSigmund Freud: The New Dynamic PsychiatryThe Psychobiology and Commonsense Psychiatry of Adolf MeyerThe Roots of Behaviour TherapyThe Impact of Philosophy on Psychiatry at the Turn of the Century