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
Wallis, Jennifer
Melling, Joseph
Forsythe, Bill
Le Bras, Anatole
Crawley, Alex
Brewer, Amanda Lynn
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Patients
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Children
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Progressive Era (1890s-1920s)
21st century
20th century
Places
England
Scotland
United States
Espírito Santo (Brazil)
Ohio (U.S.)
Wales
Institutions
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
York Retreat
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