Is There a Difference Between Neurology and Psychiatry?

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The hospital was the ground upon which nerology and psychiatry really had important moments in their development. Now we we know that mo ailments of the mind do have some kind of organic basis. But should say more about this isho, before answer your question directly. I think it's important. The nearo psychiatryic needs to reform as one perhaps,. Perhaps in so far as er we what counts as organic or not is no longer the same as what was the case in the early twentieth century or late nineteenth century er.

Shermer and Arikha discuss: what it means for a mind to be disrupted • dementia, senility, and Alzheimer’s disease • mental illness and the labeling problem • the social construction of mental illness • neurology and psychiatry • agency and volition • memory and amnesia • autobiographical memory • self and embodied self • brain modularity • brain as a machine • emotions and cognition: bodily changes first then the awareness of the emotion • conversion disorder/hysteria • depression • metacognition: thinking about thinking • exteroception and interoception.

Noga Arikha is a philosopher and historian of ideas. The author of Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours, she is associate fellow of the Warburg Institute and honorary fellow of the Center for the Politics of Feelings, London, and research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris. She is based in Florence, Italy.