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Schlagwörter:
Emil Kraepelin, German Research Institute of Psychiatry, James Loeb, psychiatric research institutes, World War I, 20th century
Zusammenfassung:
This is the first of two articles exploring in depth some of the early
organizational strategies that were marshalled in efforts to found and
develop the German Research Institute of Psychiatry (Deutsche
Forschungsanstalt fur Psychiatrie) in 1917. After briefly discussing
plans for a German research institute before World War I, the article
examines the political strategies and networks that Emil Kraepelin used
to recruit support for the institute. It argues that his efforts at
psychiatric governance can best be understood as a form of volkisch
corporatism which sought to mobilize and coordinate a group of players
in the service of higher biopolitical and hygienic ends. The article
examines the wartime arguments used to justify the institute, the list
of protagonists actively engaged in recruiting financial and political
support, the various social, scientific and political networks that they
exploited, and the local contingencies that had to be negotiated in
order to found the research institute.
