Die Geschichte der Psychiatrie in der Charité im 19. Jahrhundert

Die Geschichte der Psychiatrie in der Charité im 19. Jahrhundert
Author: Karl Bonhoeffer
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Total Pages: 31
Release: 2013-07-29
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3662290278

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany

Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany
Author: Eric J. Engstrom
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2018-07-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501723944

The psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. In a book that demonstrates his extensive archival knowledge and an impressive command of the primary literature, Eric J. Engstrom investigates the history of university psychiatric clinics in Imperial Germany from 1867 to 1914, emphasizing the clinical practices and professional debates surrounding the development of these institutions and their impact on the course of German psychiatry.The rise of university psychiatric clinics reflects, Engstrom tells us, a shift not only in asylum culture, but also in the ways in which social, political, and economic issues deeply influenced the practice of psychiatry. Equally convincing is Engstrom's argument that psychiatrists were responding to and working to shape the rapidly changing perceptions of madness in Imperial Germany. In a series of case studies, the book focuses on a number of important clinical spaces such as the laboratory, the ward, the lecture hall, and the polyclinic. Engstrom argues that within these spaces clinics developed their own disciplinary economies and that their emergence was inseparably intertwined with jurisdictional contests between competing scientific, administrative, didactic, and sociopolitical agendas.

Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective

Memory, Anniversaries and Mental Health in International Historical Perspective
Author: Rebecca Wynter
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2023-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031229789

This book is the first to explore memory, misremembering, forgetting, and anniversaries in the history of psychiatry and mental health. It challenges simplistic representations of the callous nature of mental health care in the past, while at the same time eschewing a celebratory and uncritical marking of anniversaries and individuals. Asking critical questions of the early Whiggish histories of mental health care, the book problematizes the idea of a shared professional and institutional history, and the abiding faith placed in the reform of medicine, administration, and even patients. It contends that much post-1800 legislation drafted to ensure reform, acted to preserve beliefs about the ‘bad old days’ and a ‘brighter future’ in the state memories of imperial powers, which in turn exported these notions around the world. Conversely, the collection demonstrates the variety of remembering and forgetting, building on recent interest in the ideological and cultural linkages between past and present in international psychiatric practice. In this way, it seeks to trace the pathways of memory, exploring the direction of travel, and the perpetuation, remodeling, and uprooting of recollection. Chapter “The New Socialist Citizen and ‘Forgetting’ Authoritarianism: Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution in Socialist Yugoslavia” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer. com.

Psychiatrie im 19. Jahrhundert

Psychiatrie im 19. Jahrhundert
Author: Volker Roelcke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2003
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Fur die historische Entwicklung der Psychiatrie stellt das 19. Jahrhundert eine entscheidende Epoche dar. In dieses Jahrhundert fallen Prozesse und Ereignisse, die bis heute die Struktur und Ausrichtung des Faches massgeblich pragen: So ist die Entstehung der Psychiatrie als wissenschaftliche Disziplin und therapeutische Praxis mit der Tatigkeit von namhaften Psychiatern dieses Jahrhunderts, wie Reil, Heinroth, Jacobi, Griesinger oder Kraepelin, verbunden. Ebenso ist die feste Institutionalisierung des Fachs in staatlichen und privaten Versorgungseinrichtungen durch konkrete soziale, wirtschaftliche und politische Ereignisse des 19. Jahrhunderts massgeblich gepragt. Weiter steht das 19. Jahrhundert fur die 'Medikalisierung' des Faches und fur seine Abgrenzung sowohl gegenuber anderen medizinischen Fachrichtungen als auch gegenuber der Theologie und der Jurisprudenz. Schliesslich ist die Etablierung der Psychiatrie als universitares Fach - mit der Einrichtung von Universitatskliniken und ordentlichen Professuren - eine Entwicklung, die ihre Wurzeln und Bedingungsfaktoren ganz wesentlich in der zweiten Halfte des 19. Jahrhunderts im deutschsprachigen Raum hat. Uberblickt man den heutigen Stand der Psychiatrie in Deutschland, aber auch international, so wird deutlich, wie sehr das Fach von diesen historischen Vermachtnissen gepragt worden ist. Auch wenn das 20. Jahrhundert mit zum Teil fatalen und einschneidenden Ereignissen und Entwicklungen verbunden war, weisen die vorangegangenen Weichenstellungen doch auf eine uberraschende Aktualitat des 19. Jahrhunderts fur die Psychiatrie des 21. Jahrhunderts hin.

Berlin Electropolis

Berlin Electropolis
Author: Andreas Killen
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2006-01-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520931637

Berlin Electropolis ties the German discourse on nervousness in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to Berlin's transformation into a capital of the second industrial revolution. Focusing on three key groups—railway personnel, soldiers, and telephone operators—Andreas Killen traces the emergence in the 1880s and then later decline of the belief that modernity caused nervous illness. During this period, Killen explains, Berlin became arguably the most advanced metropolis in Europe. A host of changes, many associated with breakthroughs in technologies of transportation, communication, and leisure, combined to radically alter the shape and tempo of everyday life in Berlin. The resulting consciousness of accelerated social change and the shocks and afflictions that accompanied it found their consummate expression in the discourse about nervousness. Wonderfully researched and clearly written, this book offers a wealth of new insights into the nature of the modern metropolis, the psychological aftermath of World War I, and the operations of the German welfare state. Killen also explores cultural attitudes toward electricity, the evolution of psychiatric thought and practice, and the status of women workers in Germany's rapidly industrializing economy. Ultimately, he argues that the backlash against the welfare state that occurred during the late Weimar Republic brought about the final decoupling of modernity and nervous illness.

Westphal's "Die Agoraphobie" with Commentary

Westphal's
Author: Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1988
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

This is the first complete English translation of Westphal's 'Die Agoraphobie', the classic paper which introduced the term agoraphobia. The case histories contained in 'Die Agoraphobie' are the first systematic descriptions of the signs and symptoms which constitute agoraphobia. Regarded as a 'classic' in the history of differential diagnoses, Westphal's paper continues to be widely cited. The translation is accompanied by an extensive introductory commentary describing Westphal's career, professional reactions to 'Die Agoraphobie', the contrast between Freud and Westphal's view of agoraphobia, and the current status of its treatment. This book will be of interest to all those suffering from agoraphobia, mental health professionals, and students of abnormal psychology and psychopathology.