Pathologist of the mind : Adolf Meyer and the origins of American psychiatry / S.D. Lamb.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

xii, 299 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pathology as method : Adolf Meyer's vision for a clinical science of psychiatry -- Mind as biology : Adolf Meyer's concept of psychobiology -- Unique soil in Baltimore : the Phipps Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital -- The baptismal child of American psychiatry : the Meyerian case history -- A wonderful center for mental orthopedics : Adolf Meyer's therapeutic experiment -- Subconscious adaptation : psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Meyerian psychiatry.