- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 “Violent Fatigues,” Bad Lips, and Unwell Hands -
2 The Beagle Illnesses -
3 Hard Work, Occasional Unwellness, Discovering the Theory of Natural Selection, and Marriage -
4 Malaise, Vomiting, and the Beginning of “Extreme Spasmodic Daily & Nightly Flatulence” -
5. Moving to Down and Developing a “Profoundly Tranquil” Routine of Work, Rest, and Walks Around the Sandwalk -
6 Treatments from Father, Father's Death, Prolonged Vomiting, and Treatments from Dr. Gully with Hydropathy at Malvern -
7 Self-Observation and Doing Dr. Gully's Treatment at Down and Then Self-Observation and Treating Himself -
8 Working “Too Hard” on Natural Selection and Treatments at Moor Park -
9 “Dreadfully Up-hill Work” on the Origin of Species and Treatments at Moor Park and Ilkley -
10 Illness and “Anxious Looking Forward” -
11 Prolonged Vomiting and Treatments from Doctors Ayerst, Gully, Brinton, and Jenner -
12 Prolonged Vomiting and Treatments from Doctors Jenner, Chapman, and Bence Jones -
13 Improved Health and Living in a “Perpetually Half Knocked-Up Condition” -
14 The Final Illnes -
15 Darwin's Use of Snuff and Alcohol -
16 Theories of Darwin's Doctors, and of Darwin -
17 Several Different Theories -
18 Theories of Keith and Alvarez, and a Comparison of Darwin's Illness with the Illnesses of His Relatives and Children -
19 Psychoanalytic Theories -
20 The Possibility of Chagas' Disease -
21 Medical Theories -
22 The Possibility of Toxicity from Arsenic, and from Other Medicines -
23 The Possibility of Illness from Pigeon Allergens -
24 Two Psychosomatic Theories -
25 Psychiatric Theories of Bowlby, and of Barloon and Noyes -
26 The Theory of Dysfunction of the Immune System -
27 The Possibility of Adrenal Disease -
28 The Possibility of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -
29 A Dermatological Diagnosis -
30 The Possibility of Systemic Lactose Intolerance -
31 The Possibility of Crohn's Disease - Summary
- Appendix Darwin's Diary of Health
- Bibliography
- Index
Psychoanalytic Theories
Psychoanalytic Theories
- Chapter:
- (p.139) 19 Psychoanalytic Theories
- Source:
- Darwin's Illness
- Author(s):
Ralph Colp Jr. M.D.
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
Dr. Edward Kempf's explanations and diagnosis of Charles Darwin need more evidence and discussion. A succession of psychoanalytically-oriented psychiatrists then argued that Darwin felt hostility for his father. Douglas Hubble contended that Darwin needed to deny the occasion when his father rebuked him for being idle and predicted that he would become a “disgrace” to himself and his family. Dr. Rankine Good pictured a direct struggle of a son revolting from his father. In 1963, Phyllis Greenacre wrote that Darwin had an “unusual capacity for neurotic denial”, and that it was his need to deny his paternal aggression which contributed to his illness. Following the appearance of the views of Hubble, Good, and Greenacre, with their emphasis on Darwin's paternal hostility, several individuals questioned the validity of these views by putting them into a larger perspective. In 1990, John Bowlby, in his biography of Darwin, delineated two kinds of father–son interactions. Bowlby's view that Darwin sometimes doubted his father's good opinion of his work seems more plausible than the view that he had conscious and unconscious paternal hostility.
Keywords: Charles Darwin, Dr. Edward Kempf, Dr. Rankine Good, Phyllis Greenacre, paternal hostility, John Bowlby, psychoanalytic theories
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
1 “Violent Fatigues,” Bad Lips, and Unwell Hands -
2 The Beagle Illnesses -
3 Hard Work, Occasional Unwellness, Discovering the Theory of Natural Selection, and Marriage -
4 Malaise, Vomiting, and the Beginning of “Extreme Spasmodic Daily & Nightly Flatulence” -
5. Moving to Down and Developing a “Profoundly Tranquil” Routine of Work, Rest, and Walks Around the Sandwalk -
6 Treatments from Father, Father's Death, Prolonged Vomiting, and Treatments from Dr. Gully with Hydropathy at Malvern -
7 Self-Observation and Doing Dr. Gully's Treatment at Down and Then Self-Observation and Treating Himself -
8 Working “Too Hard” on Natural Selection and Treatments at Moor Park -
9 “Dreadfully Up-hill Work” on the Origin of Species and Treatments at Moor Park and Ilkley -
10 Illness and “Anxious Looking Forward” -
11 Prolonged Vomiting and Treatments from Doctors Ayerst, Gully, Brinton, and Jenner -
12 Prolonged Vomiting and Treatments from Doctors Jenner, Chapman, and Bence Jones -
13 Improved Health and Living in a “Perpetually Half Knocked-Up Condition” -
14 The Final Illnes -
15 Darwin's Use of Snuff and Alcohol -
16 Theories of Darwin's Doctors, and of Darwin -
17 Several Different Theories -
18 Theories of Keith and Alvarez, and a Comparison of Darwin's Illness with the Illnesses of His Relatives and Children -
19 Psychoanalytic Theories -
20 The Possibility of Chagas' Disease -
21 Medical Theories -
22 The Possibility of Toxicity from Arsenic, and from Other Medicines -
23 The Possibility of Illness from Pigeon Allergens -
24 Two Psychosomatic Theories -
25 Psychiatric Theories of Bowlby, and of Barloon and Noyes -
26 The Theory of Dysfunction of the Immune System -
27 The Possibility of Adrenal Disease -
28 The Possibility of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus -
29 A Dermatological Diagnosis -
30 The Possibility of Systemic Lactose Intolerance -
31 The Possibility of Crohn's Disease - Summary
- Appendix Darwin's Diary of Health
- Bibliography
- Index