Naslov
Conceptual analysis and intellectual history: moral insanity and harm in the fin de siècle Croatian psychiatry

Autori
Korotaj Drača, Vinko ; Malatesti, Luca

Izvornik
Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine (0350-2791) 47 (2021), 2; 451-475

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
antisocial personality disorder ; moral insanity ; conceptual analysis ; intellectual history of psychiatry ; Croatian psychiatry in the 19th century

Sažetak
We investigate whether the analysis of the concept of mental disorder, as carried out in analytic philosophy of psychiatry, can contribute significantly to the intellectual history of antisocial personality disorders. We discuss and address possible pitfalls of this interdisciplinary interaction. Using insights from analytic philosophy of psychiatry, we investigate whether there were significant differences in the explicit conceptualisation of the notion of harm in diagnoses of moral insanity in relevant texts of Austrian and Croatian psychiatrists at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. Our finding that different notions of harm were at the core of debates on moral insanity in early Croatian psychiatry indicates the fruitfulness of the interaction between analytic philosophy and intellectual history of psychiatry.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Povijest, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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