- Hermann Emminghaus
Hermann Emminghaus (
May 20 ,1845 -February 17 ,1904 ) was a Germanpsychiatrist who was a native ofWeimar . He was a pioneer of child andadolescent psychology , and a founder of developmentalpsychopathology .He studied medicine at the Universities of Göttingen and Jena, and in 1869 received his medical doctorate. Afterwards he was an assistant to Carl Gerhardt (1833-1902), who was director of the Medical Clinic in
Jena . From 1874 to 1880 he worked at theUniversity of Würzburg , where he was an assistant toFranz von Rinecker (1811-1883).In 1880 Emminghaus was appointed to the first chair of psychiatry at the
University of Dorpat . When he leftDorpat in 1886, his position was filled byEmil Kraepelin (1856-1926). In 1886 Emminghaus became a professor of psychiatry at theUniversity of Freiburg , where he instituted a new regimen of treatment for mental patients, including a "no-restraint policy".His best known written works are a book concerning general
psychopathology called "Allgemeine Psychopathologie zur Einführung in das Studium der Geistesstörungen", and a publication on childhoodmental illness titled "Die psychischen Störungen des Kindesalters". Since 1984 the "Hermann Emminghaus Prize" is awarded every two years in recognition of outstanding scientific work performed in the fields of child and adolescent psychiatry.References
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