title: From solitary vice to split mind: psychiatric discourses of male sexuality and coming of age, 1918-1938.
abstract: Early in this century, adolescence began to emerge as a discrete, biologically based and, therefore, "natural" subject category. The psychiatric profession engaged in the discursive production of the adolescent through the identification, classification and use of the psychiatric illness of adolescent insanity. The mental disease of youth, dementia praecox, drew young men into a tutelary relationship with psychiatrists, who were eager to delineate the appropriate strategies for avoidance of the age-specific mental disease.
authors.affiliation: Australian National University.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D001315:Australia / Q000208:ethnology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000191:economics / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology; D008603:Mental Health / Q000266:history; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D046468:Sexual Development / Q000502:physiology; D019529:Sexuality / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D012922:Social Change / Q000266:history; D012924:Social Conditions / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D055815:Young Adult