%0 Journal Article
%T ¡®Brain Disorders¡¯, by Henry Calderwood (1879)
%A GE Berrios
%J History of Psychiatry
%@ 1740-2360
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0957154X17745435
%X Henry Calderwood, a nineteenth-century Scottish philosopher interested in madness, published in 1879 an important work on the interaction between philosophy of mind, the nascent neurosciences and mental disease. Holding a spiritual view of the mind, he considered the phrase ¡®mental disease¡¯ (as Feuchtersleben had in 1845) to be but a misleading metaphor. His analysis of the research work of Ferrier, Clouston, Crichton-Browne, Maudsley, Tuke, Sankey, etc., is detailed, and his views are correct on the very limited explanatory power that their findings had for the understanding of madness. Calderwood¡¯s conceptual contribution deserves to be added to the growing list of nineteenth-century writers who started the construction of a veritable ¡®philosophy of alienism¡¯ (now called ¡®philosophy of psychiatry¡¯)
%K Brain
%K Calderwood
%K Ferrier
%K mind
%K psychiatry
%K psychology
%K Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense
%K Szasz
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957154X17745435