Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Inspecting Great Britain: German Psychiatrists' Views of British Asylums in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Permeating National Boundaries: European and American Influences on the Emergence of “Medico-Pedagogy” in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- 3 Organizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903–1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy
- 4 Germany and the Making of “English” Psychiatry: The Maudsley Hospital, 1908–1939
- 5 Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I
- 6 “Beyond the Clinical Frontiers”: The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910–1945
- 7 Mental Hygiene in Britain during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Limits of International Influence
- 8 Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920–1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887–1973)
- 9 Explorations of Scottish, German, and American Psychiatry: The Work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the Treatment of Noncertifiable Mental Disorders in England, 1899–1939
- 10 Welsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources
- 11 Alien Psychiatrists: The British Assimilation of Psychiatric Refugees, 1930–1950
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
3 - Organizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903–1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Inspecting Great Britain: German Psychiatrists' Views of British Asylums in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
- 2 Permeating National Boundaries: European and American Influences on the Emergence of “Medico-Pedagogy” in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain
- 3 Organizing Psychiatric Research in Munich (1903–1925): A Psychiatric Zoon Politicon between State Bureaucracy and American Philanthropy
- 4 Germany and the Making of “English” Psychiatry: The Maudsley Hospital, 1908–1939
- 5 Patterns in Transmitting German Psychiatry to the United States: Smith Ely Jelliffe and the Impact of World War I
- 6 “Beyond the Clinical Frontiers”: The American Mental Hygiene Movement, 1910–1945
- 7 Mental Hygiene in Britain during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Limits of International Influence
- 8 Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920–1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887–1973)
- 9 Explorations of Scottish, German, and American Psychiatry: The Work of Helen Boyle and Isabel Hutton in the Treatment of Noncertifiable Mental Disorders in England, 1899–1939
- 10 Welsh Psychiatry during the Interwar Years, and the Impact of American and German Inspirations and Resources
- 11 Alien Psychiatrists: The British Assimilation of Psychiatric Refugees, 1930–1950
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In the imaginations of many observers prior to World War I, the psychiatric clinic in Munich epitomized the professional ideals of psychiatric training and research. Inaugurated in 1904, it quickly gained a reputation as a model institution and became a shrine on the pilgrimage of numerous American and European psychiatrists in search of professional edification. The clinic's reputation was derived in good part from the prestige of its first director, Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926). By the turn of the century, Kraepelin was fast becoming Germany's foremost clinical psychiatrist, internationally renowned for his classification of endogenous psychoses.
Kraepelin's enormous influence on psychiatric classification has had a profound impact on his historical legacy. Advocates and detractors alike have been inclined to debate his significance above all within nosological parameters. The resulting historiography has shown a decided predilection for psychiatric concepts. Indeed, Kraepelin's legacy has in some respects come to be held hostage to an historiographic preoccupation with the origins and implications of his psychiatric nosology. Deserved or not, the attention given to his classification of mental disorders has tended to eclipse other important facets of his work—facets that proved crucial to the profession's development in the twentieth century and that are as pertinent to psychiatric research today as they were a century ago. This article looks beneath Kraepelin's nosology to consider another aspect of his work that, if one purviews the literature, has rarely become the object of historical inquiry.
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- International Relations in PsychiatryBritain, Germany, and the United States to World War II, pp. 48 - 66Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010