Saxon Psychiatry Museum
The Saxon Psychiatry Museum is a museum in Leipzig and deals with the history of psychiatry . The sponsor is the Verein Durchblick, an association of people with experience in psychiatry. It was established in 2000. The special exhibitions deal with individual fates, careers and institutions:
- the life stories of court president Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) and the Saxon dialect poet Lene Voigt (1891–1962)
- the biographies and therapeutic concepts of doctors and psychiatrists such as Christian August Fürchtegott Hayner (1775–1837) and Hermann Paul Nitsche (1876–1948)
- the development of psychiatric institutions around the Middle Ages ( St. Georg Hospital ) up to sanatoriums and nursing homes ( Sonnenstein sanatorium , Thonberg private facility , Dosen sanatorium ).
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Individual evidence
- ^ Annette Kaminsky: Places of Remembrance. Ch. Links Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-861-53862-2 , p. 428 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 11.7 " N , 12 ° 21 ′ 18.6" E