Leudar Ivan, Sharrock Wes
Psychology Department, University of Manchester, UK.
Hist Psychiatry. 2002 Sep;13(51 Pt 3):247-65. doi: 10.1177/0957154X0201305101.
John Bunyan was a seventeenth-century religious reformer who is nowadays widely known for his Pilgrim's Progress and also for his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. In the nineteenth century he was diagnosed, on the basis of his revelations in that autobiography, as suffering from a variety of mental pathologies. In this study we track his 'psychiatric career' through the work of H. Taine and J. Royce (Part 1), and W. James and P. Janet (Part 2). The examination of these authors' practices of 'retrospective psychiatry' allows us to bring to light some changes in psychiatric concepts in the late nineteenth century, and to investigate both the use of cases in psychological reasoning, and translations from religious to psychiatric idioms.
约翰·班扬是一位17世纪的宗教改革家，如今他因《天路历程》以及他的精神自传《罪人中的罪魁蒙恩记》而广为人知。在19世纪，基于他在那本自传中的自白，他被诊断患有多种精神疾病。在这项研究中，我们通过H. 泰纳和J. 罗伊斯的著作（第一部分）以及W. 詹姆斯和P. 雅内的著作（第二部分）来追溯他的“精神病史”。对这些作者“回顾性精神病学”实践的考察，使我们能够揭示19世纪后期精神病学概念的一些变化，并研究案例在心理推理中的运用，以及从宗教用语到精神病学用语的转换。
