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By the 1950s that became conventional that mental disorder was not confined to the certifiable

Despite such resistance, and roads were nevertheless made, spread, perhaps by the crisis in standard explanations produced by shock in the great war. The thought of mass cowardice was too dreadful to contemplate, but no regular psychiatry could explain why brave man of good background all of a sudden could no longer fight.

Griesinger, mobius and others espoused the idea of defenerationism, the descent of a family into increasing psychopathology

Wilhelm Griesinger boldly asserted in his pathology therapy of psychiatric diseases in 1845. That mental illnesses are brain diseases.

Others like JCA Heinroth combined moral treatment with severe shock, restraint and punishments.

Reil was a very early precursor of psychodynamic theory. The charismatic alienist Woodmaster, the delinquent mind a staff trained, and play acting wood. Further the aliens effort to break the patient’s fixed ideas.

Johan Christian Reil coined the term psychiatry
Approach indebted to the romanticism preoccupation with the irrational depth of the psyche.

“They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they put outvoted me”
-Nathaniel Lee