F Söhner1,2, H Fangerau3, T Becker4. 1. Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Deutschland. Felicitas.Soehner@hhu.de. 2. Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie II, der Universität Ulm, Günzburg, Deutschland. Felicitas.Soehner@hhu.de. 3. Institut für Geschichte, Theorie und Ethik der Medizin, Medizinische Fakultät, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Universitätsstr. 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Deutschland. 4. Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie II, der Universität Ulm, Günzburg, Deutschland.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the political preparation of the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag which aimed at assessing and improving the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic/psychosomatic care in the Federal Republic of Germany. METHODS: We performed a selective literature review and a hermeneutic analysis of political, parliamentary and administrative records from public archives which reflect and help reconstruct the run-up process to the so-called Enquete of psychiatry. RESULTS: Literature and documents show how individual actors both in the mental health professions and politics bundled activities in the domains of psychiatry and mental health care as well as health/social politics; they helped to implement political, parliamentary and administrative steps leading up to the Enquete of the German Bundestag (1971-1975). In addition, the records and pertinent literature document the social, cultural and political developments in the Federal Republic of Germany which helped initiate the Enquete project. CONCLUSION: The Enquete was not a straightforward process and was also not tied to any moment. It fits more into the longer-term reform process of psychiatry in the Federal Republic of Germany.
BACKGROUND: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the political preparation of the Enquete Commission of the German Bundestag which aimed at assessing and improving the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic/psychosomatic care in the Federal Republic of Germany. METHODS: We performed a selective literature review and a hermeneutic analysis of political, parliamentary and administrative records from public archives which reflect and help reconstruct the run-up process to the so-called Enquete of psychiatry. RESULTS: Literature and documents show how individual actors both in the mental health professions and politics bundled activities in the domains of psychiatry and mental health care as well as health/social politics; they helped to implement political, parliamentary and administrative steps leading up to the Enquete of the German Bundestag (1971-1975). In addition, the records and pertinent literature document the social, cultural and political developments in the Federal Republic of Germany which helped initiate the Enquete project. CONCLUSION: The Enquete was not a straightforward process and was also not tied to any moment. It fits more into the longer-term reform process of psychiatry in the Federal Republic of Germany.
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History of psychiatry; Post-war psychiatry; Psychiatric reform; Psychiatric treatment; Walter Picard