Console and Classify: The French Psychiatric Profession in the Nineteenth Century

by Jan E. Goldstein

Since its publication in 1989, Console and Classify has become a classic work in the history of science and in French intellectual history. Now with a new afterword, this much-cited and much-discussed book gives readers the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in nineteenth-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society.

Genres: History, Psychology, France, History Of Science, European History

464 pages, Paperback

First published February 2, 2002

Reviews

[Chris Nagel · Rating 4 out of 5]

The butler did it.

[Matt · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was hoping for more classifying. It was more on the history than the science. My bad.