 | Clinical Psychiatry in Imperial Germany: A History of Psychiatric Practice The psychiatric profession in Germany changed radically from the mid-nineteenth century to the beginning of World War I. In a book that demonstrates his extensive archival knowledge and an impressive command of the primary literature, Eric J. Engstrom... Eric J. Engstrom is Research Associate at the Center for Human and Health Sciences at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has published several books, including Knowledge and Power: Perspectives in the History of Psychiatry and Psychiatry in the 19th Century ( Psychiatrie im 19. Jahrhundert ). He is also editor of a multivolume edition of the writings of the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin. |
