Publications by authors named "E Kumbier"
[Psychiatry in the GDR as a "niche" - Between adaptation and autonomy].
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol
January 2024
Background: With the help of statements from contemporary witnesses, it shall be deduced, if and to what extent Psychiatry was experienced as a shelter for employees and patients in the state controlled society of the GDR and which effort of adaptation to the authoritarian regime was needed to organize protected and protective spaces, here called "niches".
Method: 74 guide-based interviews from subjects including former patients and different staff groups of the East german Psychiatry were analyzed qualitatively.
Results: Many quotations show, that Psychiatry in the GDR was experienced as a "niche" for dissenting people and could offer a certain amount of protection for patients.
Background: Articles on psychiatric care in the GDR published in the journal "Deine Gesundheit" are identified. This involved examining how psychiatry was presented to the public and the intentions of addressing a lay audience.
Methodology: All booklets published between 1955 and 1989 were systematically reviewed, the role of the publishers examined, and an assessment made in the context of social psychiatry and sociopolitical conditions.
Objective: The aim of this survey of professionals working in the GDR and former patients was to help determine the role and function of occupational therapy in psychiatric institutions.
Methodology: 74 contemporary witnesses were interviewed who had worked professionally in psychiatric institutions in the GDR or had been treated there in adulthood. The interviews were evaluated qualitatively.
Objective: The transition from socialist dictatorship to liberal democracy in the GDR was associated with political and social upheaval. The transformation accompanying the democratic sociopolitical process is examined using the example of the Association for Neurology and Psychiatry of the GDR, which led to its unification with the German Association for Psychiatry and Neurology (DGPN).
Method: For the historical investigation material from the archives of the DGPPN as well as the personal belongings of the protagonists of the time were used and eyewitness interviews were conducted.
Background: Neurology as a discipline developed differently in the two German states after 1945 and little is known about neurology in the GDR.
Objective: This article examines the present state of historical research on neurology in the GDR.
Materials And Methods: We systematically screened the existing literature from the period 1991-2021 and assigned the studies to different categories.