Article ID: CBB549303835

Gustav Nikolaus Specht (1860–1940): psychiatric practice, research and teaching during a change of psychiatric paradigm before and after Kraepelin (2022)

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Gustav Specht (1860–1940) developed academic psychiatry in Erlangen. After studying medicine in Würzburg, Munich and Berlin, he became assistant medical director in the mental asylum of Erlangen. In 1897 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1903 ordinary, Professor of Psychiatry. A good clinician and teacher, Specht worked during a time of paradigm change in psychiatry. He was an expert in chronic mania, and introduced the concept of the ‘grumbler’s delusion’. Paranoia he believed to be the core problem of psychopathology and considered the depressive syndrome as an ‘exogenous-type’ of reaction. For him, trauma was important in the genesis of mental illness, and his ‘hystero-melancholy’ anticipated the concept of borderline personality disorder.

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Authors & Contributors
Forsythe, Bill
Melling, Joseph
Andrews, Jonathan
Burgmair, Wolfgang
Coleborne, Catharine
Hirst, David
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Health and History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Medizinhistorisches Journal
Medicina Historica
Publishers
Routledge
Michigan State University
Oxford University Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Thames & Hudson
University of Illinois at Chicago
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Patients
Hospitals and clinics
People
Griesinger, Wilhelm
Maximilian II, King of Bavaria
White, William Alanson
Frame, James
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
21st century
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
Places
United States
Scotland
England
Ontario (Canada)
Bavaria (Germany)
Berlin (Germany)
Institutions
York Retreat
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
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