Article ID: CBB157472221

The madness of Princess Alice: Sigmund Freud, Ernst Simmel and Alice of Battenberg at Kurhaus Schloß Tegel (2020)

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During the winter of 1930, Princess Alice of Battenberg was admitted to Kurhaus Schloß Tegel, where she was diagnosed with schizophrenic paranoia. When Freud was consulted about her case by Ernst Simmel, the Sanatorium’s Director, he recommended that the patient’s ovaries be exposed to high-intensity X-rays. Freud’s suggestion was not based on any psychoanalytic treatment principles, but rooted in a rejuvenation technique to which Freud himself had subscribed. In recommending that psychotic patients should be treated with physical interventions, Freud confirmed his conviction that the clinical applicability of psychoanalysis should not be extrapolated beyond the neuroses, yet he also asserted that a proper consideration of endocrinological factors in the aetiology and treatment of the psychoses should never be excluded.

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Authors & Contributors
Thabane, Motlatsi
Jane Freebody
Womack, Jeffrey
Macleod, Sandy
Dohrmann, Ole
Watts, Alison
Concepts
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Patients
X-rays
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
England
Berlin (Germany)
France
Great Britain
Alberta, Canada
Lesotho
Institutions
Berliner Medicinisch-Psychologische Gesellschaft
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