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Psychiatric governance, völkisch corporatism, and the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (1912-26). Part I

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Engstrom,  Eric J.
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Max Planck Society;

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Burgmair,  Wolfgang
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Max Planck Society;

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Weber,  Matthias M.
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Max Planck Society;

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Engstrom, E. J., Burgmair, W., & Weber, M. M. (2016). Psychiatric governance, völkisch corporatism, and the German Research Institute of Psychiatry in Munich (1912-26). Part I. HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRY, 27(1), 38-50. doi:10.1177/0957154X15623692.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002B-A51A-4
Abstract
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.