Article ID: CBB500391937

Naming psychiatry: apropos earliest use of the term by Karl Friedrich Burdach (1800) (2023)

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Janssen, Diederik F. (Author)


History of Psychiatry
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Pages: 231-248
Publication date: 2023
Language: English


The term psychiatry (Psychiatrie) was first used in 1800, in the early work of Leipzig Romantic natural philosopher and later neuroanatomist Karl Friedrich Burdach; it was a recherché reference to medical animism. This little-known instance of neologism by a young ambitious author invites a brief lexicological study of psychiatry as a specialty in search of its place among the medical specialties, methods and applications. The European historical lexicology of psychiatry recalls the philosophical commentary tradition on Aristotle’s De Anima, eventually (c. 1525) honoured with the mononym psychologia. The battle for the soul’s science was superseded by the increasingly diverse theoretical, empirical, forensic and literary-humanitarian interests in mental medicine during the second half of the eighteenth century.

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Authors & Contributors
Nolte, Karen
Blom, Jan Dirk
Brinkschulte, Eva
De Kock, Liesbet
Dening, Tom
Eghigian, Greg
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Publishers
Franz Steiner Verlag
Franco Angeli
Lit
Pickering & Chatto
Steiner
Transcript Verlag
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Public health
Medicine
Clinical psychology
People
Kraepelin, Emil
Morel, Bénédict Auguste
Baer, Karl Ernst von
Buccola, Gabriele
Burdach, Karl Friedrich
Carus, Carl Gustav
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Germany
France
Brazil
Great Britain
Berlin (Germany)
Austria
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