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Schlagwörter:
Emil Kraepelin, German Research Institute of Psychiatry, James Loeb Kaiser-Wilhelm-Society, psychiatric research institutes, Rockefeller Foundation; Weimar Republic;
Zusammenfassung:
This is the second 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). The first article analysed the
strategies of psychiatric governance - best understood as a form of
volkisch corporatism - that mobilized a group of stakeholders in the
service of higher bio-political and hygienic ends. This second article
examines how post-war imperatives and biopolitical agendas shaped the
institute's organization and research. It also explores the financial
challenges the institute faced amidst the collapse of the German
financial system in the early Weimar Republic, including efforts to
recruit financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation and other
philanthropists in the USA.
