Henry Maudsley

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Henry Maudsley
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Henry Maudsley (born February 5, 1835 ; died January 23, 1918 ) was an English psychiatrist who for the second half of the 19th century was considered the most important representative of his field in Great Britain.

Live and act

Henry Maudsley was born in 1835. He founded forensic psychiatry in England , in particular with his book Physiology and pathology of the mind (EA 1867; published in German under the title Die Physiologie und Pathologie der Seele after the 2nd edition with authorization from Maudsley). The Lawn House Asylum in Hanwell, Middlesex , was a private asylum owned by Henry Maudsley.

The Maudsley Hospital in London is named after him and was financed largely from him.

Maudsley was a professor at University College London .

Maudsley consistently held the conviction that the "mind" (mind) is dependent on the body and brain . He was concerned with the transitions between health and illness and he wrote about religious prophets. The work of Scipio Sighele is influenced by Maudsley.

The physiology and pathology of the soul

Maudsley's book Physiology and pathology of the mind (EA 1867; German 1870: The Physiology and Pathology of the Soul ) contains the first description of child and adolescent psychiatric diseases that goes beyond a case description and systematizes it. He differentiates between "Monomania, or partial ideational insanity", "Choreic delirium, or choreic ideational insanity", "Cataleptoid insanity", "Epileptic insanity", "Mania", "Melancholia" and "Affective insanity, or moral insanity". In Chapter II of the Part "The Pathology of the Soul" Maudsley also deals with the "madness of childhood". In doing so, he presented an early work on child and adolescent psychiatry very early on - even before the monographs by Hermann Emminghaus ( Die Psychischen disorders des Kinderalters , 1887) and Paul Moreau ( La folie chez les enfants , 1888) .

Publications

  • The physiology and pathology of the mind. Macmillan and Co., London 1867.
    • Physiology de l'esprit. from the English by Alexander Herzen. Reinwald, Paris 1879. (digitized version)
    • The physiology and pathology of the soul. After the original second edition, edited in German by Rudolf Boehm . Authorized edition. Würzburg Stuber's bookstore, 1870.
  • Responsibility in mental disease. (= The International Scientific Series. Vol. VIII). Henry S. King & Co., London 1874. (German: H. Maudsley: Die Verchungsbarkeit der Mental Ill. (= International Scientific Library. XI. Volume ). FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1875)
  • Body and Mind: - An Inquiry into their Connection and mutual Influence, specially in Reference to mental Disorders. An enlarged and revised Edition to which are added Psychological Essays. Appleton and Company, New York 1890.
  • (GERMONT Dr., trad.) La pathologie de l'esprit. Germer Baillière, Paris 1883.

See also

References and footnotes

  1. ^ GH Brown: Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of London 1826-1925. (= Munk's Roll. Vol IV). The College of Physicians, London 1955, pp. 172-173.
  2. ^ A. Lewis: Henry Maudsley 1834-1918. In: K. Kolle (Ed.): Great neurologists. Volume 3, G. Thieme, Stuttgart 1963, pp. 101-108.
  3. ↑ see e.g. B. his La foule criminelle (digitized version )
  4. ↑ Fop Verheij: Klassiekers van de child- en jeugdpsychiatrie 2: verschuivende denkbeelden. (Klassiekers van de kinder- en jeugdpsychiatrie: verschuivende denkbeelden) 2008, ISBN 978-90-232-4449-3 , p. 18 ff. ( Partial online view )
  5. ^ Paul Moreau de Tours (1844-1908) was the son of the great psychiatrist Jacques Joseph Moreau de Tours (1804-1884).
  6. ↑ digitized version

literature

  • M. Collie: Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. A Bibliographical Study. Bury St Edmunds 1988, ISBN 0-906795-52-4 .
  • Aubrey Lewis: The State of Psychiatry. Essays and Adresses. Routledge & Kegan, London 1967.
  • Louisa Lowe: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes 1872. (Who watches over the guards?) Www.victoriangothic.org/the-lunacy-of-english-lunacy-laws/ The Bastilles of England (1883) archive.org archive.org

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personal data
SURNAME Maudsley, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British psychiatrist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1835
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1918