'A plastic power ministering to organisation': interpretations of the mind-body relation in late nineteenth-century British psychiatry.
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.
D049672:History, 19th Century; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D011603:Psychophysiology / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom