Preface
1. Introduction
2. Catatonia Before Kahlbaum
3. Karl Kahlbaum
4. Emil Kraepelin
5. Eugen Bleuler
6. Kidnapped!
7. Psychology
8. Delirious Mania and Febrile Catatonia
9. The Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
10. Symptoms and Diagnoses
11. Catatonia in DSM-III and after
12. New Faces of Catatonia?
13. Treatments
14. L'Envoi
Abbreviations
Endnotes
Edward Shorter, PhD, FRSC
After receiving a PhD from Harvard University in 1968, Dr Shorter
took up a History appointment at the University of Toronto, where
he became the Jason A Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine
in 1991. Shorter, who teaches in the Faculty of Medicine and is a
member of the Department of Psychiatry, has written numerous books,
including a History of Psychiatry (Wylie 1996) and How Everyone
Became Depressed (Oxford UP, 2013).
Max Fink, MD
After receiving an M.D. from the New York University School of
Medicine in 1945, Dr. Fink qualified in neurology, psychiatry and
psychoanalysis. Began a life-time research career on the practice
and mechanisms of convulsive therapy (electroshock). Interest in
new psychoactive agents led to digital computer analysis of drug
effects laying the foundation for the science of pharmaco-EEG.
Interest in the syndromes of catatonia and melancholia began in
1977 leading to texts and histories of both
syndromes.
"I am extremely grateful for the very wise decision of Shorter and
Fink to collaborate... I am convinced Shorter and Fink's book will
become a classic." -- Jose de Leon, University of Kentucky College
of Medicine
"Shorter and Fink offer a probing, well-informed, and very readable
account of the arcane theorizing and factional struggles by which
psychiatrists hashed out a consensus on catatonia, schizophrenia,
and other psychic ailments, one thatâs enriched with dozens of
intriguing case studies ... The result is an engrossing portrait of
a fearsome and fascinating disease, and a searching inquiry into
the ways in which doctors misunderstand the mind." --
Kirkus
"One expects to read a history book. But The Madness of Fear is so
much more than that. [It] is an impressive piece of work that
should be on the shelf of each psychiatrist... Shorter and Fink
succeed in braiding the historic bits and pieces together to create
a story that reads like a novel. An exciting one!" -- Journal of
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