title: [Gerhart Hauptmann and psychiatry at that time reflected in his works].
abstract: In the work of Hauptmann, the "Poet of compassion", the mentally ill, doctors and psychiatric institutions play a special role in the context of social criticism concerning human suffering. The charisma of August Forel and the impressions of atmosphere at the Zurich Burghölzli must already have had a formative effect on Hauptmann in 1888. The Leubus Institution (Silesia), the provincial psychiatric hospital in Stralsund and the psychiatric hospital in Dalldorf/Berlin are further backdrops for Hauptmann's encounters with the psychologically abnormal and his almost characteristic affinity for borderline psychological situations in his books.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dieckhöfer
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature / Q000266:history*; D011037:Poetry as Topic / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Gerhart Hauptmann und die zeitgenössische Psychiatrie im Spiegel seiner Werke.