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The views of Wilhelm Griesinger (1817–68) on suicidality or ‘self-murder’ (2018)

Gnoth, Mareike (Author)
Glaesmer, Heide (Author)
Steinberg, Holger (Author)

History of Psychiatry
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Pages: 470-477

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0957154X18793591

DOI: 10.1177/0957154X18793591

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Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment Textbooks Psychiatry Brain Mind and body Heredity Suicide Mental disorders and diseases 19th century Germany Griesinger, Wilhelm

To date, little attention has been paid to the fact that a whole section in Wilhelm Griesinger’s textbook is devoted to suicidality. Griesinger perceived suicide as a distinct entity. In his opinion, only one-third of all suicides were committed by people suffering from mental disorders; heredity and brain anomalies could also be involved. Therapeutically, Griesinger recommended removing all potential means for suicide and admitting people at risk to a psychiatric hospital. Since his textbook was a standard work, his views reveal what young doctors could have learned about suicidality in German psychiatry of the second half of the nineteenth century.

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