Separation Anxiety and the Making of Animal Psychiatry. (360G-Wellcome-104988_Z_14_Z)

£90,142

My research will demonstrate how, and why, veterinarians and other animal practitioners used human psychiatric diseases as models for animal psychopathology. I will show how animals were perceived to suffer psychopathology outside of the laboratory and explore how this was a consequence of changing attitudes to companion animals, of how the animal mind was understood, and an increasing reliance on brain chemistry. I shall analyse this history with a focus on the condition 'separation anxiety' . John Bowlby developed this theory of attachment partly using animal psychological experiments and replaced emotions with instincts. This allowed the later application directly to animals. My thesis will shed new light on how closely intertwined human and animal psychiatry became in the twentieth-century. There are five main goals to this project: - To address a gap in existing scholarship as no comprehensive study of animal psychiatry exists. - To show how the veterinary profession used human psychiatric disease as a model for animal psychopathology. - To demonstrate the links between the mind and behaviour in twentieth-century Britain. - To explore the changing status of companion animals. - To consider the influence of animals on modern psychiatry.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 90142
Applicant Surname Adlem
Approval Committee ERG11 Society and Ethics
Award Date 2014-05-13T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2013/14
Grant Programme: Title PhD Studentship in H&SS
Internal ID 104988/Z/14/Z
Lead Applicant Ms Jennifer Adlem
Partnership Value 90142
Planned Dates: End Date 2019-08-01T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2014-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region Greater London
Sponsor(s) Dr Rhodri Hayward