Between Kraepelin and Freud: the integrative psychiatry of August Hoch.
Through examination of the career of the psychiatrist August Hoch (1868-1919), this essay challenges two assumptions implicit in histories of US progressive-era psychiatry: that the emergence of Freudian psychoanalysis signalled a devaluation of Kraepelin's contributions and that theoretical and therapeutic eclecticism inhibited psychiatric research. Locating Hoch's guiding principles within the context of Kraepelin's clinical psychiatry, I analyse how Hoch mediated the demands of classification and the dynamic understanding of persons in prosecuting a new kind of clinical research that would not have been possible within either the Kraepelinian or Freudian perspective alone.
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Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA. samartin@midway.uchicago.edu
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