Diagnosing Churchill

Bipolar or “Prey to Nerves”?

Wilfred Attenborough (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

231 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.

This pioneering book investigates how biographical evidence has been variously 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 paid, also, to the distinct question of Churchill and “nerves,” otherwise known as neurasthenia. This question has a place alongside the manic-depression issue because, by ensuring there is a marked contrast between two lines of biographical inquiry, it facilitates a significant move in the direction of a more rounded, a more securely founded, understanding of how Churchill functioned psychologically, and how he did not.

That goal of a more rounded understanding is important, and the contribution Diagnosing Churchill makes towards its achievement is worthwhile, because accuracy in the depiction of key elements in the functioning of a major historical figure, one of the heroes of Western democratic civilization, is enjoined by a principle Churchill expressed thus: “the meanest historian owes something to the truth.”

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
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	380 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