Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind - (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society) by Eric T Carlson & Jeffrey L Wollock & Patricia S Noel

Book Synopsis

This volume contains the lectures of Dr. Benjamin Rush on physiology, which deal with the mind. Regarded as "the father of American psychiatry," for over 30 years Dr. Rush treated insane patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He published the first American book on psychiatry, "Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Disease of the Mind," in 1812. Contents of this volume: General Introduction; The Syllabus; The Introductory Lecture; Introduction to the Lectures on Animal Life; Benjamin Rush Lectures on the Mind; Introduction to the Mind; Introduction to Sleep and Dreams; and Epilogue.

Review Quotes

"[The lectures] are comprehensive, they are lucid, they are eloquent. They provide insight into what was known at the turn into the 19th century of the nervous system and its functions... Instructive and truly fascinating reading."--Jane Oppenheimer "Quarterly Review of Biology"

"A book full of insights and valuable scholarship."--Bernard Singer "Medical History"

"For the most part brought into print for the first time, these lectures constitute the theory of psychology missing from Rush's Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind (1812), the first American book on psychiatry."--Stanley W. Jackson