[Origin of psychiatric disorders ex sexualibus: explanatory approaches at the beginning of the 19th century].
In the first half of the 19th century there were the first publications, which dealt systematically with the relation between deviations of the sexual system or behaviour and mental disturbances. The knowledge and the theoretical ideas of medicine and of psychiatric diseases at that time and a discussion concerning the consequences of masturbation can be demonstrated in works like "De mentis aberrationibus ex partium sexualium conditione abnormi oriundis" by Hermann Joseph Löwenstein (1823) and "Ueber die Beziehungen des Sexualsystemes zur Psyche überhaupt und zum Cretinismus ins Besondere" by Joseph Häussler (1826). Both publications try to sytemize the issue and prove their hypotheses by numerous casuistics. The autors belong to the so called "Somatis School" in psychiatry at that time.
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Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychiatrie der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Julius-Kühn-Strasse 7, 06097 Halle.
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