title: [Wilhelm Griesingers "Magna Charta" of psychiatry. Its reception and impact on modern psychiatry].
abstract: The work of Wilhelm Griesinger, really a magna charta of psychiatry, is usually reduced to just one sentence: "Geisteskrankheiten sind Gehirnkrankheiten", roughly: "mental illnesses are brain disorders". However, this is neither explicitly stated in Griesingers work nor does it adequately summarise his conception. This misinterpretation will be questioned by a careful analysis of the literature, and, in addition to that, the dimensions of Griesingers psychiatry including its delayed impact on the development of modern psychiatry will be described.
authors.affiliation: Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tölle
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D009626:Terminology as Topic