Making the Case: Narrative Psychological Case Histories and the Invention of Individuality in Germany, 1750-1800

by Robert Leventhal

One hundred years before Freud's striking psychoanalytic case-histories, the narrative psychological case-history emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century in Germany as an epistemic genre (Gianna Pomata) that cut across the disciplines of medicine, philosophy, law, psychology, anthropology and literature. It differed significantly from its predecessors in theology, jurisprudence, and medicine. Rather than subsuming the individual under...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110642670
• ISBN13: 9783110642674
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary