Paracelsus' Psychiatry: On the Occasion of the 400th Anniversary of His Book "Diseases That Deprive Man of His Reason" (1567)
Abstract
Although Paracelsus has been called a fore-runner of modern psychiatry, his thinking was and remains highly controversial, as this author points out. His approach to reality was essentially an expression of medieval philosophy; he was, however, among the first to locate the roots of the personality in passions and the will and to consider the pathos of man's existential condition between instincts and spirit.
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