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The article reports about a medical malpractice case against the director of a psychiatric University Hospital, who was convicted for breach of secrecy by the Oberlandesgericht in Munich. The court found him guilty of issuing and giving to the plaintiff's wife an unauthorised psychiatric certificate, stating that the plaintiff, a carpet dealer for oriental rugs, who was caught in a war of roses with his wife at this time and was never a patient of the psychiatrist, let alone properly examined by him or his staff, suffered from an acute and severe psychosis with immediate need for compulsory admission. This all happened behind his back and enabled the wife to spread rumors of the alleged mental illness of her husband. Banks and trading partners therefore shunned him, which nearly caused his bankruptcy. This is why this unusual case led to the decision that the psychiatrist had to reimburse Euro 15000 for pain and suffering and additionally cover all material damages resulting from the tort.
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Bipolar Disorder/diagnosis , Commitment of Mentally Ill/legislation & jurisprudence , Confidentiality/legislation & jurisprudence , Disability Evaluation , Eligibility Determination/legislation & jurisprudence , Expert Testimony/legislation & jurisprudence , Malpractice/legislation & jurisprudence , Psychotic Disorders/diagnosis , Adult , Bipolar Disorder/psychology , Compensation and Redress/legislation & jurisprudence , Germany , Hospitals, Psychiatric/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Middle Aged , Physician Executives/legislation & jurisprudence , Psychotic Disorders/psychologySubject(s)
Psychiatry/history , Germany , History, 19th Century , History, Modern 1601- , Humans , SwitzerlandABSTRACT
In the work of Hauptmann, the "Poet of compassion", the mentally ill, doctors and psychiatric institutions play a special role in the context of social criticism concerning human suffering. The charisma of August Forel and the impressions of atmosphere at the Zurich Burghölzli must already have had a formative effect on Hauptmann in 1888. The Leubus Institution (Silesia), the provincial psychiatric hospital in Stralsund and the psychiatric hospital in Dalldorf/Berlin are further backdrops for Hauptmann's encounters with the psychologically abnormal and his almost characteristic affinity for borderline psychological situations in his books.
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Medicine in Literature/history , Poetry as Topic/history , Psychiatry/history , Germany , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , HumansSubject(s)
Alchemy , Epilepsy/history , Mental Healing/history , Pharmacology/history , Religion and Medicine , Europe , History, Ancient , History, Medieval , HumansABSTRACT
The Flemish author Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883) whose novels were translated in the 19th century into all European languages, wrote also a mainly unknown, romantically elaborated story which was only translated into French under the title " Eene Gekkenwereld ", in which the system of psychiatric family care plays a leading rôle. After the presentation of a psychopathographic sketch of the personality of Conscience this is followed by a brief information on the contents. In this connection the psychopathologically and social-psychiatrically relevant passages are briefly examined and analysed. The work comes to the conclusion that in the literary field Conscience may be regarded as a pioneer of the humanisation of the early scientific psychiatry to which in the atmosphere of the psychiatric family care in the Flemish place Geel the social-psychiatric element had been already permanently adopted.
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Famous Persons , Literature, Modern/history , Mental Disorders/history , History, 19th Century , Humans , Male , NetherlandsSubject(s)
Psychiatry/history , Cultural Characteristics , History, 15th Century , History, 16th Century , History, 17th Century , History, 18th Century , History, Ancient , History, Medieval , Humans , Medicine in Literature , Mental Disorders/history , Psychological Theory/history , Religion and Psychology , SpainSubject(s)
Psychiatry/history , Cultural Characteristics , Ethnicity , History, 19th Century , History, 20th Century , Humans , Literature, Modern , Philosophy , SpainABSTRACT
The article gives a survey of the psychohygienic ideas and conceptions appearing during this period, which were closely connected with a range of philosophical thoughts, by means of contemporary texts. From the epoch of the Greek comedy as reflection of the everyday-life of the Polis, Aristophanes has been quoted. The importance of the Epicurean philosophy and the spiritual guidance throughout the post-Epicurean stoa with its representatives Zenon, Chrysipp, Panaitios, Poseidonios and finally Epiktet, the latter being the most important representative of the fashionable philosophy during the Roman imperial reign, has been emphasised and analysed. The available sources show that eudaimonia, happiness, namely freedom from anxiety, menace and feelings of hatred, and furthermore the surveying of worldly wisdom, the control of one's impulses through Logos and education, harmony to compensate the contrasts, helpfulness towards one's fellow-men as well as the education of the individual to gain inner freedom, represent the most important antique directives of the mind in the sense of a rudimental psychohygiene and psychoprophylaxis.
