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compulsory admission
East Germany
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family involvement psychiatry
GDR
German Democratic Republic
institutionalisation Europe
medical ethics psychiatry
mental health policy
Nazis
postwar German history
psychiatric committal practices Germany
Volksgemeinschaft
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9781032716220
- Weight: 670g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany’s age of extremes. The book shows that - even during the Nazi killing of the sick - relatives played an even more important role in most admissions than doctors and the authorities.
In light of admission practices, this study traces how ideas about illness, safety, and normality changed when the Nazi regime collapsed in 1945 and illuminates how closely power configurations in the psychiatric sector were linked to political and social circumstances.
Stefanie Coché is a historian at the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. Her research interests are history of psychiatry, religious history, German history, and American history.
