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German Romantic Psychiatry

Part I. Earlier, Including More-Psychological Orientations

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History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology

Abstract

Early nineteenth century German psychiatry is usually presented as a dispute between those who saw the origins of mental illness in the mind—the mentalists or psychicists—and those who interpreted it in purely biological terms—the somaticists.1 This simple notion actually applies only to the contest between the early representatives of the period, J. C. A. Heinroth, the Leipzig professor, and Maximilian Jacobi, the director of the Siegburg, one of the first and foremost of German asylums. While of interest—Heinroth was undoubtedly one of the most prolific and extravagant writers of the era, and Jacobi taught many leaders of German hospital psychiatry of the following generation—this battle of words may not be the most significant aspect of early nineteenth century German psychiatry.

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