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In the discussion of L. Snell’s “clinical-psychopathological phenomenology” at the end of the first chapter we touched briefly on a subject which we must now look at in depth. This is the fact that the period in which ‘scientific’ psychiatry came into being — between the appearance of the first issue of the Allgemeine Zeitschrift für Psychiatrie in 1844 and Griesinger’s publication of theArchiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten in 1867 — was dominated by the opposition between anthropologically oriented psychiatry and natural scientific psychiatry.
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Verwey, G. (1985). W. Griesinger and the Mechanicist Conception of Psychiatry (from about 1845 to about 1868). In: Psychiatry in an Anthropological and Biomedical Context. Studies in the History of Modern Science, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5213-3_3
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