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
8 - Psychiatry in Munich and Yale, ca. 1920–1935: Mutual Perceptions and Relations, and the Case of Eugen Kahn (1887–1973)
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
During the period between ca. 1900 and the mid-1930s, German academic psychiatry was to some degree perceived as a model for clinical practice, research, and institutional organization in the field. However, parallel to the interest of British, American, and other psychiatrists in German psychiatry, there emerged among German psychiatrists themselves a growing multifaceted discontent about academic medicine in general and about aspects of the dominant approach in psychiatry in particular. Already during the 1920s, this discontent led some psychiatrists such as Eilhard von Domarus and Eugen Kahn to look to other academic cultures, in particular to that of the United States, which appeared to be characterized by a more open academic life, better career opportunities, and chances to develop new approaches to mental health care.
The career of Eugen Kahn in Munich and at Yale is an exemplary case study of the mutual perceptions and evaluations of American and German psychiatrists in the late 1920s and early 1930s. It provides insights into the consequences of such mutual images on the decisions and activities of individual psychiatrists as well as of institutions such as universities or the Rockefeller Foundation. Kahn's move from the prestigious Psychiatric Clinic in Munich to the first chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene at Yale in 1930 also provides some insight into the question of what might happen if such mutual perceptions conceived from a distance were put to the test: The Yale medical faculty, as well as Kahn himself, had opportunites to check on their previous expectations in everyday academic life.
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- International Relations in PsychiatryBritain, Germany, and the United States to World War II, pp. 156 - 178Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010