The fight for ‘traumatic neurosis’, 1889–1916: Hermann Oppenheim and his opponents in Berlin1.
In: History of Psychiatry, Jg. 22 (2011-12-01), Heft 4, S. 465-476
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The concept of traumatic neurosis conceived by Hermann Oppenheim (1858–1919) located post-traumatic nervous symptoms between hysteria and neurasthenia, considering them a consequence of physical reactions to fright and a cause of molecular tissue changes. As early as 1890, his concept was criticized at an international congress in Berlin. In February 1916, there was a significant debate of the issue in Berlin, and eventually Oppenheim’s concept was completely defeated at the war meeting of German neuropsychiatrists in September 1916 in Munich. In the Berlin debate, a range of views on war neurosis was presented. Partly as a result of this, but also due to the powerful position of Oppenheim himself, it was not until after the end of WWI that traumatic neurosis was excluded from medico-legal assessments. The differing views of physiological brain-mind relations from that time do not differ greatly from present concepts. However, Oppenheim’s traumatic neurosis with its more quasi-neurological picture should not be equated with PTSD. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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The fight for ‘traumatic neurosis’, 1889–1916: Hermann Oppenheim and his opponents in Berlin1.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Holdorff, Bernd ; Dening, Dr Tom |
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Zeitschrift: | History of Psychiatry, Jg. 22 (2011-12-01), Heft 4, S. 465-476 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2011 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0957-154X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1177/0957154X10390495 |
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