2013/12/01 by Cornelia Thiels · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Psychology · #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #Psychiatric care and mental health services
paper · pdf · doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.113.126516
openalex publication_date 2013/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
In mid-19th-century Germany the conviction that 'mental disease is brain disease' was accompanied by a call for social reform in psychiatry. During neurology training, future psychiatrists often encounter patients with mental disorders rarely seen in psychiatric departments and learn how to avoid misdiagnosing brain diseases as mental disorders.