Manfred Sakel
Manfred Joshua Sakel (born June 6, 1900 in Nadwirna , † December 2, 1957 in New York ) was a Polish doctor and inventor of insulin shock therapy . He was an uncle of the American psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg .
Sakel was born in the Jewish community of Nadwirna in Hungary-Austria. He claimed to be a direct descendant of Maimonides , a 12th century rabbi, doctor, and philosopher. After studying medicine in Brno and Vienna, Sakel went to Berlin in 1927. After a few months as an assistant doctor at the Urbank Hospital , Sakel worked in Kurt Mendel's private sanatorium in Lichterfelde. Here he mainly treated actors, artists and doctors who were addicted to morphine. Mild hypoglycaemia was accidentally caused by an insulin overdose in a dependent diabetic. Sakel noted that after this incident, the patient's craving for morphine subsided. He started treating all patients with insulin. In 1930, Sakel reported on his experiences in several magazine articles.
After seizing power , Sakel returned to Vienna, where in October 1933 he began treating schizophrenic patients with insulin-triggered hypoglycemic shocks associated with seizures at the university hospital. In the spring of 1935 the monograph "New Treatment Method for Schizophrenia" was published, which was a compilation of an extensive series of articles in the Wiener Medizin Wochenschrift. In the foreword, the head of the psychiatric university clinic in Vienna, Otto Pötzl , wrote that the results were two to three times better than the most optimistic statistics on untreated courses of schizophrenia.
In 1936 Sakel traveled to the USA, where insulin coma therapy was widely used.
Sakel died in New York in 1957.
literature
- Hans Bangen: History of the drug therapy of schizophrenia . Berlin 1992. Pages 43-50
- Udo Benzenhöfer : Sakel, Manfred Joshua. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 358 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achim Thon: War Victims of Psychiatry. The example of the healing and nursing homes in Saxony. In: Medicine and Health Policy in the Nazi Era. Edited by Norbert Frei , R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1991 (= series of the quarterly books for contemporary history, special issue), ISBN 3-486-64534-X , pp. 201–216; here: p. 204
Web links
- Manfred Sakel in the archive of the Austrian Media Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sakel, Manfred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sakel, Manfred Joshua (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nadwirna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd December 1957 |
| Place of death | new York |