Die bayerische Irrenreform von 1851---Ein Instrument der administrativen Modernisierung unter König Max II. von Bayern (2008)
Burgmair, Wolfgang (Author)
Weber, Matthias M. (Author)
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 92
Pages: 165--193
By 1850 the reformation of institutional psychiatric care in Bavaria was given the highest priority by monarchy and administration. Cooperating with experts, especially the psychiatrist Karl August von Solbrig, they provided for new asylums to be established throughout Bavaria in a surprisingly short period of time. It was, however, only at personal intervention of King Max II. that the administrative and financial difficulties which had existed since the beginning of the 19th century could be overcome. The planning of asylums done by each administrative district of Bavaria vividly reflects rivalry as well as cooperation between all governmental and professional agencies involved. Modernization of psychiatry was publicly justified by referring to scientism, the need for a more progressive restructuring of administration, and the paternalistic care of the monarchy, whereas, from an administrative point of view, aspects of psychiatric treatment, like what kind of asylum would be best, were rather insignificant. The structures established by means of the alliance between state administration and psychiatric care under the rule of King Max II. had a lasting effect on the further development of Bavaria.
...MoreDescription On the reformation of institutional psychiatric care in Bavaria and the alliance between state administration and psychiatric care.
Similar Citations
Article
Pols, Hans;
(2012)
The Psychiatrist as Administrator: The Career of W. F. Theunissen in the Dutch East Indies
(/isis/citation/CBB001200716/)
Article
Birgit Braun;
Johannes Kornhuber;
(2022)
Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin
(/isis/citation/CBB549303835/)
Book
Melling, Joseph;
Forsythe, Bill;
(2006)
The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845--1914
(/isis/citation/CBB000774000/)
Article
McCarthy, Angela;
(2012)
Connections and Divergences: Lunatic Asylums in New Zealand and the Homelands before 1910
(/isis/citation/CBB001200710/)
Book
Dale, Pamela;
Melling, Joseph;
(2006)
Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom
(/isis/citation/CBB000774001/)
Article
Ledebur, Sophie;
(2011)
Schreiben und Beschreiben. Zur epistemischen Funktion von psychiatrischen Krankenakten, ihrer Archivierung und deren Übersetzung in Fallgeschichten
(/isis/citation/CBB001220454/)
Thesis
Leahy, Todd E.;
(2004)
The Canton Asylum: Indians, Psychiatrists, and Government Policy, 1899--1934
(/isis/citation/CBB001560741/)
Article
Hess, Volker;
(2008)
The Administrative Stabilization of Vaccines: Regulating the Diphtheria Antitoxin in France and Germany, 1894--1900
(/isis/citation/CBB000831747/)
Article
Thomas Müller;
Bernd Reichelt;
(2019)
The ‘Poitrot Report’, 1945: the first public document on Nazi euthanasia
(/isis/citation/CBB341702782/)
Article
Pietikainen, Petteri;
(2009)
Strengthening the Will: Public Clinics for the Nervously Ill in Sweden in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB000932790/)
Article
Maria Marta Lobo de Araújo;
(2014)
O tratamento dos doentes insanos de Vila Viçosa no hospital de Rilhafoles (segunda metade do século XIX)
(/isis/citation/CBB534729638/)
Article
Swartz, Sally;
(2010)
The Regulation of British Colonial Lunatic Asylums and the Origins of Colonial Psychiatry, 1860--1864
(/isis/citation/CBB001033693/)
Article
Bures, Idelette de;
(2006)
À propos de la loi sur les aliénés du 30 juin 1838
(/isis/citation/CBB000931813/)
Thesis
Burt, Susan Margaret;
(2003)
“Fit Objects for an Asylum”: The Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum and Its Patients, 1852--1899
(/isis/citation/CBB001562141/)
Book
Roth, Angela;
(1999)
Würdig einer liebevollen Pflege: Die württembergische Anstaltspsychiatrie im 19. Jahrhundert
(/isis/citation/CBB000110526/)
Article
Bazar, Jennifer L.;
(2015)
The Utica Crib: Biography of an Unknown Barbarous Object
(/isis/citation/CBB001551579/)
Thesis
Marinski, Deborah R.;
(2006)
Unfortunate Minds: Mental Insanity in Ohio, 1883--1909
(/isis/citation/CBB001561679/)
Article
Reaume, Geoffrey;
(1997)
Accounts of abuse of patients at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1883-1937
(/isis/citation/CBB000079758/)
Book
Cherry, Steven;
(2003)
Mental Health Care in Modern England: The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum/St. Andrew's Hospital, c. 1810-1998
(/isis/citation/CBB000320240/)
Book
Smith, Leonard;
(2007)
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750--1830
(/isis/citation/CBB000773994/)
Be the first to comment!