Hundred years of psychotherapy and social psychiatry in Germany - how did that change psychiatry?

Authors

  • Cornelia Krause-Girth

Abstract

In order to understand the specific relation between psychotherapy and psychiatry in Germany today, the development of psychotherapy and social psychiatry in the last century is described. It can be shown that the beginning integration of psychotherapy and the realization of many social psychiatric aims by the community psychiatry did not change the underlying biological paradigma and the dominance of pharmacological treatment methods especially fore those mentally ill people with lower education and income. So it remains a task for social psychiatry as for psychotherapists especially psychoanalysists in the new century, to integrate their ways of thinking and treatment in psychiatry and mental health services in order to humanize psychiatry, to develop forms of cooperation with patients and to fulfill the demands of people with psychiatric diseases and their families for an autonomous life in dignity.

Keywords:
Social psychiatry and psychotherapy, psychiatry and psychotherapy, historical development of psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychotherapy

Author Biography

Cornelia Krause-Girth

Prof. Dr. med. Diplom-Psychologin Cornelia Kiause-Giith, geb. 1951, Studium der Medizin und Psychologie in Münster, Facharztausbildung Psychiatrie in Bremen, Psychotherapeutische Medizin und Gruppenanalyse in Frankfurt am Institut für Medizinische Psychologie der Universitätsklinik, psychoanalytische Ausbildung am Sigmund-Freud Institut in Frankfurt, seit 1997 Lehrstuhl für Sozialpsychiatrie an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt. Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Psychopharmakaverordnungen, Selbsthilfe und Psychotherapie, geschlechtsspezifische Behandlungsformen.Prof. Dr. Cornelia Krause-Girth, Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main, Fachbereich Sozialarbeit, Nibelungenplatz 1, D-60318 Frankfurt am Main

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Published

2000-07-01

How to Cite

Krause-Girth, C. (2000). Hundred years of psychotherapy and social psychiatry in Germany - how did that change psychiatry?. Psychotherapie-Wissenschaft, 8(3), 99–106. Retrieved from https://psychotherapie-wissenschaft.info/article/view/518

Issue

No. 3 (2000): Psychotherapie Forum 8/3 (veröffentlicht bei Springer Wien New York)

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Special Issue

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