Publications by authors named "Friedrich Leidinger"

The article examines the possibility of love in psychiatry against the background of its history, its tendency towards objectification and exclusion, and from the perspective of a philosophy of encounter and hospitality.

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The article summarizes various publications on the application of "learning algorithms" and "artificial neural networks" in psychiatry to describe a dystopian future scenario. The draft of a nosology based on molecular biology is opposed to the ecological disturbance concept of psychiatry developed from the critical examination of history and in dialogue with the stakeholders.

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Health and illness in modern societies are often understood as moral or normative categories. The author proposes an anthropological, not mutually excluding concept. A case study shows that even a severe illness with shortened life-expectation and -quality can provide new possibilities and confer fulfilment and happiness for the people affected on condition that they and their caregivers have an open-minded attitude ("serendipity"), sense of coherence, empowerment and orientation towards "recovery" as a new concept of healthiness at their disposal.

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Polish psychiatry was since its origin deeply influenced by German (Austrian) and Russian psychiatry. As a larger part of the Polish territory had belonged to Germany or Austria before 1918, many institutions and staff in mental health had a German or Austrian history. During the occupation nearly all mental hospitals were taken over by the Germans, sometimes all the patients, sometimes part of them were murdered, and often the staff members were shot together with their patients.

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Polish psychiatry was since its origin deeply influenced by German (Austrian) and Russian psychiatry. After the German assault Polish psychiatric patients were the first victims of mass executions, and the first to be killed by new developed "gassing" technology. Especially cruel was the fate of Jewish patients.

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Under current conditions psychiatric-psychotherapeutic inpatient care can not be sustained in its present form for much longer. Therefore, our main priority must be to adapt the care structures to the changes in society and psychiatry under consideration of the patients' needs. Cooperation, integration, and interlocking of cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary treatment provision are the challenge of the next decade.

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