title: [Max Isserlin--founder of child psychiatry in Munich].
abstract: The early days of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy at the beginning of the 20th century were governed by the schools of thought of that era and by personalities, who as physicians and researchers, recognized that disorders of mental development constituted a separate field. Among them was Max Isserlin, who established the first hospital for child psychiatry in Munich, the Heckscher Clinic, in 1929. Isserlin's landmark discoveries in psychiatry, above all those pertaining to aphasias, are still of topical interest today. He concentrated particularly upon speech development disorders, as well as upon what we today would refer to as described developmental disorders. From 1933 on Isserlin's personal fate was marked by persecution and displacement. The purpose of this brief biographical sketch is to commemorate his work and to make visible his place in modern thought.
authors.affiliation: Institut und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychothrapie der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Martinius
mesh_terms: D001037:Aphasia / Q000266:history*; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D002658:Developmental Disabilities / Q000266:history; D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans