The History of Neorology and Psychiatry

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Many of the patients i saw were patients who have what one calls functional diseases, mes don't really know what's going on. Pnerological diseases such as the menshaw are specifically nerological. There is still a kind of ain this unit was famed, because there is a kind of no man's land between neorology and psychiatry. We just don't quite know always what th is disorganic basis is. I think one person in five in the us Has chronic pain. Race worled widein includes all sorts of ailments, you know, like i b s is is a functional disease. All sorts of what one calls to day conversion disorders, which called hysteria at some points

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.