ABSTRACT
W. I. Gay made a vigorous plea for expanding the domain of comparative medicine, and two years later R. W. Leader surveyed the long history of contributions to medical skills made by comparative pathologists seeking animal models of human diseases. Soon after that, three famous ethologists, Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and Nikolas Tinbergen received a Nobel Prize for the lessons that their accounts of animal habits have taught medical practitioners about human diseases and behaviour disorders. Psychopathology, however, is convenient shorthand for alluding to behavioural abnormalities that have been recognized over the ages, and is used for contemporary convenience, like psychology and psychosomatics, with only token commitment to a medical model of madness. H. S. Liddell spoke only of experimental neurosis, but the point applies to any animal model of human psychopathology. The chapter describes many spontaneous animal disablements with psychiatric labels, but human and animal cases can never be exactly same in symptomatology.
