Martin Shirley A
Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Hist Psychiatry. 2007 Sep;18(71 Pt 3):275-99. doi: 10.1177/0957154X06065266.
Through examination of the career of the psychiatrist August Hoch (1868-1919), this essay challenges two assumptions implicit in histories of US progressive-era psychiatry: that the emergence of Freudian psychoanalysis signalled a devaluation of Kraepelin's contributions and that theoretical and therapeutic eclecticism inhibited psychiatric research. Locating Hoch's guiding principles within the context of Kraepelin's clinical psychiatry, I analyse how Hoch mediated the demands of classification and the dynamic understanding of persons in prosecuting a new kind of clinical research that would not have been possible within either the Kraepelinian or Freudian perspective alone.
