Discover the history of European psychology from the region’s biggest thinkers The Anthology of German Psychiatric Texts is the fourth volume in the International Anthologies of Psychiatry series, presented by the World Psychiatric Association. The anthology features the work of Johan Christian August Heinroth, Carl Wilhelm Ideler, Ernst Freiherr von Feuchtersleben and other significant contributors to the field of psychiatry. Wilhelm Griesinger and Paul Julius Mobius are also represented. Griesinger became one of the founders of modern-day psychiatry, while Mobius was a founder of the concept of hysteria in the German-speaking countries. The anthology series is offered to readers as part of the history of European psychiatry.
A propos de l’auteur
Henning Sass is currently Medical director and chairman of the Board of the University Hospital of the University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Germany. He trained at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg. He then held the Chair of Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Munich and of General Psychiatry at the University of Technology in Aachen. As a professor of psychiatry he was head of the German Society for Psychiatry (DGPPN) in 1999/2000 and of the European Association of Psychiatrists (EPA) in 2005/2006. He is editor or co-editor of various scientific journals, Der Nervenarzt, J Behav. Sciences and the Law and ZPPK. He serves on the Board of the Association of Medical faculties in Germany (MFT) and is also Consultant of the German Ministry for Science, Education and Technology in Berlin – Gesundheitsforschungsrat des BMBF . His research includes psychopathology, personality disorders and forensic psychiatry.