Mental illness
Mental illness (formerly also "soul sickness" ) is an old German term for those diseases that are now referred to as affective psychoses . The term mental illness is no longer in use today.
Concept emergence
The definition of the term was carried out to distinguish it from the term mental illness . In the case of mental illnesses , the emotional and emotional life is affected, but in contrast to mental illnesses , the intellectual functions are preserved.
The origin of the term mental illness goes back to the time of the Enlightenment and refers mainly to the investigations of psychics and the definition of mind . Even Johann Wolfgang von Goethe has used this term and Immanuel Kant commented on the mood disorders . Until the 1970s, it was also common to refer to today's neurologist as a “specialist in nervous and mental disorders”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Scientific service Hoffmann-La Roche: Roche Lexicon Medicine. Elsevier, Munich (© Urban & Fischer 2003 - Roche Lexicon Medicine 5th Edition) online (keyword “Mental Illness” required)
- ↑ Peters, Uwe Henrik : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 3 1984; Lexicon-Stw. "Mental Illness": page 215
- ↑ Kant, Immanuel : Anthropology in a Pragmatic View . AA VII, page 212 online