Postgraduate Course: History of Psychiatry (PSYL11076)
Course Outline
| School | School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Psychology |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course surveys the history of psychiatry as a medical field. It does so by focusing on a selection of specific problems faced by psychiatrists from the nineteenth century to the present. While broadly chronological, the aim of this course is to emphasise the practices of psychiatrists rather than give a complete overview of the subject. It focuses on specific mental problems, often comparing different approaches to the problem from a number of standpoints. It encourages students to think about issues of interpretation, and as such, includes a number of primary sources - particularly case histories - which will help students to ground each of the secondary sources in actual psychiatric material. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will have demonstrated through written work, oral presentations and other contributions in class, that they:
- Have a substantive knowledge and understanding of a selection of important issues within the history of psychiatry, and of the contending viewpoints and claims on these issues
- Have an appreciation of the different context in which psychiatric knowledge is developed, and can comment intelligently on the importance of these contexts
- Have developed sophisticated interpretative skills in the analysis of historical documents
- Can identify and characterise key approaches to understanding and evaluating issues within the historiography of psychiatry, and identify advantages, problems and implications of these approaches
- Can apply these understandings and skills, and deploy some of these approaches, concepts and techniques, in analysing a new problem in the history of psychiatry, and in other areas of the history of science and medicine |
Assessment Information
| One 3-4,000 word essay (100%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Study Abroad |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ivan Crozier
Tel: (0131 6)51 1220
Email: ivan.crozier@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Toni Noble
Tel: (0131 6)51 3188
Email: Toni.noble@ed.ac.uk |
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