Papers, talks, etc

In Press:



Mc Nally, K (2012). Definitions of Schizophrenia, 1908-1987: The Failed Essentialism. Theory & Psychology, 22(1), pp??-??.



Publications:



Mc Nally, K. (2009). Eugen Bleuler’s Four’s. History of Psychology, 12(2), 43-59.



Mc Nally, K. (2009). A history of the concept of schizophrenia. Doctoral dissertation, University College Dublin, Ireland.



Mc Nally, K. (2007). Schizophrenia as split personality/Jekyll and Hyde: The origins of the informal usage in the English language. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 43(1), 69-79.







Abstracts:



Mc Nally, K. (2009). Schizophrenia classification: Historical heterogeneity and structural repetitions. European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 259(1),50.



S. J. French, W. Watson, T. Kershaw, T. Rashid, A.Mora, K.McNally, A. Chadwick, S.Patel (1999). Conditionally immortalized hippocampal neuroepithelial stem cells have a greater capacity to differentiate into neurons in CA1, than striatal or cortical cell populations, when transplanted into an ischemic rat brain. Society forNeuroscience Abstracts, 25 (2), 1310.



S. Patel, A. Mora, K. McNally, T Rashid, P. Sowinski, W. Watson, G. Dawe and J.Sinden (1999). Engraftment of implanted neuroepithelial stem cells is dependent on the magnitude of ischemic damage and anatomical origin of the grafted cells. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 25(2), 1309.



Forthcoming Presentations:



Should be doing one on Second Life soon. Check back here or email me and I'll let you know when.





Recent Presentations:

May 2011: The appearance and disappearance of catatonia. Center for the history of medicine in Ireland conference at University of Ulster, Belfast (Arts College).



April 2011: The appearance and disappearance of catatonia in schizophrenia. BPS: History & Philosophy of Psychology Section Oxford (subject to formal acceptance). Abstract

2010. The concept of schizophrenia. Presented at the Department of Psychology. University College Dublin. April 7th.



2010. 20th Century Schizophrenia Classification: Chasing the Phantom? Presented at the British Psychological Society's annual conference for the history & philosophy OF psychology section, University of Edinburgh.



2009. A historical understanding of the stigmatisation of schizophrenia. Presented at the symposium ‘Psychiatry, Politics and Society in Twentieth Century Ireland and Britain’ at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin.



2009. Schizophrenia classification: Historical heterogeneity and structural repetitions.Presented at the 2nd European Conference on Schizophrenia Research. Berlin.



2008. Eugen Bleuler’s Four A’s. Presented at The British Psychological Society's History and Philosophy of Psychology Section Annual Conference. Oxford.



2007. The image of schizophrenia. Presented at the First Joint meeting of the International Society for the History of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences conference on the History and Philosophy of Psychology, University College Dublin.



2006. Schizophrenia: the origins of the informal usage. Presented at The British Psychological Society. History and Philosophy of Psychology Section Annual Conference.



2006. The concept of schizophrenia. Presented at the Psychology Society of Ireland Student Conference.





Recent Book Reviews:



History of the Human Sciences Book Review: Douwe Draaisma, Disturbances of the Mind.



McNally, K. (2010). Review of the book The protest psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease.The Irish Psychologist, 36(7), 175-176.