In a contemporary setting in which all things "neuro" have great cultural sway, an analysis of the ways in which neuroscience is indebted to the methods and findings of the social sciences has received less attention. Indeed, in the new specialization of social neuroscience, neuroscientists now collaborate with contemporary psychologists and invoke historical psychological theories to help...
Arthur Kronfeld (1886-1941) was a major representative of the psychological approach to psychiatry during the interwar period. In his major work from 1930, Perspectives on Nervous and Mental Diseases (Perspektiven der Seelenheilkunde), Kronfeld developed a psychological analysis of the structure of intentionality underlying psychotic manifestations. Yet even though some consider Kronfeld to be...