Diagnosing Churchill

Bipolar or "Prey to Nerves"?

Wilfred Attenborough (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

275 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7514-5 (ISBN)

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Investigates how biographical evidence has been used, misused, or not used at all by clinicians entirely reliant on biographical evidence for the influential posthumous diagnoses they have produced of Winston Churchill as a manic-depressive. Attention is also paid to the question of Churchill and "nerves", otherwise known as neurasthenia.

The posthumous diagnosis of Winston Churchill as manic-depressive has been drawn entirely from biographical information, which, though significant to understanding his life and mind, has often been misused or misunderstood. This book investigates how such materials have been interpreted (and misinterpreted) in relation to Churchill's mental health, taking a particularly close look at his association with nerves or "neurasthenia." Included are appendices on Churchill's remedies for worry and mental overstrain and an investigation of his mental state after losing the 1945 general election.

Wilfred Attenborough is an independent scholar specializing in Churchill studies. He lives in England.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

1. Posthumous Psychiatric Diagnosticians: Characterizing Their Evidence

2. Inherited Mood Swings: Personality or Bipolar?

3. The Moods of Young Winston

4. Nerves

5. 1906–1914: Ministerial Worries and Nerves

6. 1915: Depression or Bereavement?

7. 1917–1932: “Some Ups and Downs⁠…⁠”

8. Moods of a Wartime Prime Minister

9. Churchill’s Mental Flaw as War Leader?

10. Diary Entry of Unimpeachable Medico-Biographical Authority?

Overview

Appendix 1: The “Gifted American Psychologist” and Churchill’s Remedy for “Worry and Mental Overstrain”

Appendix 2: Churchill’s State of Mind After Losing the 1945 General Election

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.06.2019
Zusatzinfo	appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Anamnese / Körperliche Untersuchung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4766-7514-7 / 1476675147
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7514-5 / 9781476675145
Zustand	Neuware