Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical State - Paperbackby Cate I. Reilly (Author) In nineteenth century imperial Germany and the Austro Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modernism. Turning to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be understood as critically responding to