Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1684.5

FREIHERR VON ERNST FEUCHTERSLEBEN (1806-1849) Lehrbuch der ärztlichen Seelenkunde C. Gerold 1845 xxii, 429 p. 22 cm.

FIRST EDITION – Feuchtersleben (1806-1949) introduced into psychiatry a new standard and a new methodology, as well as number of terms which came to stay (psychiatrics, psychosis, psychopathology). It was also after the publication of this book that the terms “amnesia” or total loss of memory, “hypermnesia” or heightened memory, and “dysmnesia” or morbidly altered memory came to be generally adopted. Feuchtersleben “came closer than any one of the ‘pure psychologists” of the first half of the century to the solution of the problem of how mental disease develops and affects the personality, and the conclusion of the general importance of psychotherapy (Zilboorg & Henry). Incl. in his book (pp.7-75) is a survey of the history of psychiatry from the earliest times to the time of Heinroth.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton, 4929.1; Welcome, p.21

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