Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lafferton, Emese

Titel

The University Clinic and the Birth of Biological Psychiatry. Academic Research, Teaching and Therapy from the 1880s

Ist Teil von

• Hungarian Psychiatry, Society and Politics in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2022, p.193-244

Ort / Verlag

Cham: Springer International Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Lafferton explores the rise of neuro-scientific and experimental research in Hungarian psychiatry from the 1870s in the context of the establishment of the Department of Mental Health and Pathology and its related clinic at the Medical Faculty in 1882. The clinic functioned as an “obligatory passage point” for medical students, academic researchers, mental and nervous patients as well as criminals suspected of mental derangement. Lafferton discusses distinct research practices (brain dissection, histological laboratory work, microscopic observation and experimental research in, for instance, hypnosis) that became emblematic of the psychiatric clinic together with the rising criticism concerning an interest in the “dead” rather than the living patient, and in the primacy of experimentation over treatment. In addition to professional power struggles, asylum doctors’ fierce attacks on academic psychiatry were also an attempt to rehabilitate the living patient and the holistic view that had traditionally characterised asylum psychiatry.