1. Historicizing the Psychological Case History

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Figures XI
5. A Note on Translations XIII
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Historicizing the Psychological Case History 21
8. 2. Theorizing the Psychological Case History 69
9. 3. Disciplining the Human Soul: German Empirical Psychology in the Eighteenth Century from Christian Wolff to Kant 107
10. 4. Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Madness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Germany: A Case History of Demonic Possession in Lower Saxony, 1744 147
11. 5. The First Modern Psychological Case History: Marcus Herz’s Psychological Description of His Own Illness (1783) and the Construction of the Modern Soul 191
12. 6. Friedrich Schiller: The Juridical-Psychological Case History as a Literary Work of Art 219
13. 7. A Doctor’s Worst Fear: Marcus Herz’s Case History of Karl Philipp Moritz Etwas Psychologisch-Medizinisches. Moriz Krankengeschichte (1793) 247
14. 8. The Case History, Therapeutics, and the Dietetics of the Soul: Aesthetics and Empirical Psychology in the Work of Karl Philipp Moritz 273
15. 9. Towards an Epistemology of the Individual Case: Stance and Deviation in the Philosophy of Marcus Herz 309
16. Conclusion: Becoming a Culture of Individual Cases 339
17. Bibliography 363
18. Index 391
19. About the Author 409