- Robert Gaupp
Robert Eugen Gaupp (
October 3 ,1870 -August 30 ,1953 ) was a Germanpsychiatrist andneurologist who was a native ofNeuenbürg ,Württemberg .Gaupp was an assistant to
Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) andKarl Bonhoeffer (1868-1948) atBreslau , and afterwards worked withEmil Kraepelin (1856-1926) at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich. From 1908 to 1936 he was a professor of psychiatry at theUniversity of Tübingen . Following World War II, he was departmental head of health and welfare for the city ofStuttgart (1945-48).Gaupp performed numerous investigations of psychological disorders, and is remembered for his case studies of mass-murderer Ernst August Wagner (1874-1938). He was particularly interested in correlations between personality and
psychosis , and was an advocate of "pastoral psychology". For a period of time, he was also editor of the "Zentralblatt für Nervenheilkunde und Psychiatrie".References
* [http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/pdf_extract/108/10/724 American Journal of Psychiatry, Robert Gaupp]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6nYhCpDvqsC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=%22Robert+Gaupp%22+paranoia&source=web&ots=zyNVmeIL-H&sig=9pscrwXbZhAwYQPt0HkydaPg9kY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA42,M1 Paranoid Modernism: Literary Experiment, Psychosis, etc. By David Trotter]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=M49pEDoEpl0C&pg=PA210&lpg=PA210&dq=%22reactive+paranoia%22&source=web&ots=XSiVKp9eQ_&sig=Czh45KQbBql5iLYiGFSrq2bFBEs&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry By Edward Shorter]
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