Psihiatrijas attīstība Krievijas impērijas Vidzemes, Kurzemes un Igaunijas guberņās 19. gadsimta beigās: Emīla Krēpelīna darbība (1886–1891)

Kuzņecovs, Vladimirs; Loseviča, Marina

doi:10.25143/amhr.2019.xii.02

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“…Besides the Alexandershöhe in Riga and the Tallinn general hospital, there was a private asylum, Rothenberg, in Riga, which was later sold to the City of Riga; there were also the Deaconess’ Institution in Tallinn and a small temporary private institution ( Familienpansionat ) in Valmiera (Wolmar) (Laehr, 1875: 141, 182–3; Laehr and Lewald, 1899: 231, 234). In addition, mentally disturbed patients were also held in military and general hospitals (Laehr and Lewald, 1899: 187; see also Kuzņecovs and Loseviča, 2019: 39). Contemporaries estimated that in 1861 in all three Baltic provinces there were 697 insane people ( Irren ) and 1,375 people with mental retardation ( Idioten ): 1 per 554 inhabitants in Estonia, 1 per 857 in Livonia, and 1 per 998 in Courland (Schulz, 1863: 389).…”

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“…During the second half of the nineteenth century, the number of mental institutions and their patient populations rose rapidly, both in Europe (Shorter, 1997: 46–7) and the Russian Baltic provinces. When the hospital was established in Tartu in 1877, there were only a few other mental institutions, in Riga and Tallinn, but by 1904 there were 16 different institutions specifically caring for the mentally ill (Kuzņecovs and Loseviča, 2019: 36–45). One reason suggested for the increase in asylum numbers was the belief among medical and lay people alike that the institutions themselves were curative, since they provided a controlled environment different from home (Shorter, 1997: 18).…”

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Institutionalization of the insane in the Russian Baltic provinces: a case study of the Hospital for Mental and Nervous Diseases in Tartu, 1881–95

Rae

2022

Hist Psychiatry

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This article studies the University of Tartu psychiatric hospital and its patient population in the Russian Baltic Province of Livonia in 1881–95, using the hospital’s admission registry book as the primary source. Although it was a university clinic following the German academic tradition, both upper- and lower-class patients were admitted (25 and 75 per cent, respectively, of 2,184 hospitalizations), with a median stay of 70 days. Admission and length of stay often depended on a family’s or community’s financial capabilities. Considerably more men and unmarried patients were admitted, and 130 hospitalized women were diagnosed with female-specific illnesses. This study argues that gender and social class should be jointly analysed, as admission and discharge outcomes are influenced by both factors simultaneously.

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