El tratamiento de la locura entre los siglos XIX y XX: los discursos sobre la cura en la medicina mental española, 1890-1917

AUTOR(ES)

Domingo, José Javier Plumed, Moreno, Luis Miguel Rojo

FONTE

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2016-12

RESUMO

Abstract This article studies the discourses about curability constructed by Spanish mental health practitioners in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. While in the 1870s and 1880s the predominant discourse promoted by doctors attached to private institutions was extremely optimistic, it subsequently changed and became more pessimistic regarding treatment outcomes. However, given phrenopathists’ professional needs, they continued to profess more or less unshakeable confidence in the therapeutic abilities of psychiatry. The reception of new nosologies, such as Kraepelin’s, depended in part on contemporary mental health practitioners’ stance on curability and was accompanied by ambivalence.

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