The Saxon Psychiatric Museum (''Sächsisches Psychiatriemuseum'') is a small museum in Leipzig and deals with the history of lunatic asylums and psychiatry. It is organized by the Durchblick association, an initiative for people affected by psychiatry in Leipzig. It was founded in 2000.
[Annette Kaminsky: ''Orte des Erinnerns.'' Ch. Links Verlag, 2016, , S. 428 ().] The special exhibitions deal with individual fates, careers and institutions:
* the life stories of the court president
Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911) and the Saxon dialect poet
Lene Voigt (1891–1962)
* the biographies and therapeutic concepts of doctors and psychiatrists such as Christian August Fürchtegott Hayner (1775–1837) and
Hermann Paul Nitsche
Hermann Paul Nitsche (November 25, 1876 – March 25, 1948) was a German psychiatrist known for his expert endorsement of the Third Reich's euthanasia authorization and who later headed the Medical Office of the T-4 Euthanasia Program.
Paul N ...
(1876–1948)
* the development of psychiatric institutions in Saxony in the Middle Ages (Hospital St. Georg) up to the sanatorium and nursing homes (
Sonnenstein Castle
The Sonnenstein Castle is a castle in Pirna, near Dresden, Germany. It housed a mental hospital, which operated from 1811 to the end of World War II in 1945. During the War, it functioned as an extermination centre for the Nazi ''Aktion T4'' pro ...
, Thonberg private institution, Dösen sanatorium).
Literature
Hubert Kolling. Review from 21 May 2014 in German language to: Thomas R. Müller: Wahn und Sinn. Patienten, Ärzte, Personal und Institutionen der Psychiatrie in Sachsen vom Mittelalter bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Katalog zur Dauerausstellung des Sächsischen Psychiatriemuseums. (Delusion and sense. Patients, doctors, staff and institutions of psychiatry in Saxony from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. Catalog for the permanent exhibition of the Saxon Psychiatric Museum), Mabuse-Verlag GmbH (Frankfurt am Main) 2014. 2nd, corr. and supplemented edition. . Saxon Psychiatry Museum Leipzig of the people's affected by psychiatry association Durchblick eV In: socialnet reviews, ISSN 2190-9245
Link to the review date of access 14 May 2023.
References
External links
Saxon Psychiatric Museum on the webpage of the association Durchblick e.V. in German
Saxon Psychiatric Museum on the Saxony Museums webpage in German
in German
At the architecture webpage architektur-blicklicht.de in German
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* {{citation, access-date=2023-05-14, author=Peter Ufer, date=2020-07-24, language=de, location=Dresden, periodical=Sächsische Zeitung, title=Die Kontrolle verloren, url=https://www.saechsische.de/plus/sachsen-museen-leipzig-psychiatriemuseum-kontrolle-verloren-5238090.html
Museums in Leipzig
Medical museums in Germany
2000 establishments in Germany