精神科医生与心理学家在20世纪初美国的专业竞争

Historians interested in psychiatrists' professionalization process in early 20th-century America have typically focused on their relations with neurologists. We often hear a story of psychiatrists moving from asylums to psychopathic hospitals with outpatients, where they began to encroach on the patient jurisdiction of neurologists or "nerve doctors," who had historically treated patients suffering from less severe conditions. This paper contributes an unexplored dimension to the "death of alienism" story by focusing the threat psychiatrists perceived from on a different rival expert: the cli