Stefanie Coché

Psychiatric Institutions and Society (eBook, ePUB)

The Practice of Psychiatric Committal in the "Third Reich," the Democratic Republic of Germany, and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1941-1963

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany's age of extremes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003857570
• Artikelnr.: 69854974

Autorenporträt

Stefanie Coché is a historian at the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. Her research interests are history of psychiatry, religious history, German history, and American history.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Historical Parameters of Committal Practice-Psychiatry, State, and Society to 1941 2. The State and Psychiatric Institutions-Parameters and Committal Decisions 3. Danger and Security: On the Practice of Compulsory Committal 4. Disease and Diagnostics-Medical Aspects of Committal 5. Work and Performance-Ability and Inability to Work in Committal Rationales 6. Conclusion.