Making the Case: The Narrative Psychological Case-history and the Invention of Individuality in Germany, 1750-1800

Preface
Contents
List of Figures
A Note on Translations
Introduction
1. Historicizing the Psychological Case History
2. Theorizing the Psychological Case History
3. Disciplining the Human Soul: German Empirical Psychology in the Eighteenth Century from Christian Wolff to Kant
4. Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Madness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Germany: A Case History of Demonic Possession in Lower Saxony, 1744
5. The First Modern Psychological Case History: Marcus Herz’s Psychological Description of His Own Illness (1783) and the Construction of the Modern Soul
6. Friedrich Schiller: The Juridical-Psychological Case History as a Literary Work of Art
7. A Doctor’s Worst Fear: Marcus Herz’s Case History of Karl Philipp Moritz Etwas Psychologisch-Medizinisches. Moriz Krankengeschichte (1793)
8. The Case History, Therapeutics, and the Dietetics of the Soul: Aesthetics and Empirical Psychology in the Work of Karl Philipp Moritz
9. Towards an Epistemology of the Individual Case: Stance and Deviation in the Philosophy of Marcus Herz
Conclusion: Becoming a Culture of Individual Cases
Bibliography
Index
About the Author