[Performing madness: the clinic as stage].

In the second half of the nine- teenth century, clinical demonstrations became the dominant teaching method in psychiatry, playing a key role in medical-professional disputes, as well. This paper traces this widely used though historiographically neglected practice of knowledge implementation and mediation, as demonstrated in the psychiatric clinic of the Berlin Charité (Psychiatrische und Nervenklinik der Berliner Charité) from 1881 to 1927. Documentation of this practice, found within individual medical records, forms the basis of this research.

[The fake lady on trial: transvestitism in psychiatry and the sexual sciences, or the regulation of public dress-code].

With the publication of Carl Westphal's "die conträre Sexualempfindung" or "the Contrary Sexual Feeling" (1870), non-conform sexual/gender behavior, such as wearing clothing from the opposite gender, fell within psychiatry's field of activity; psychiatrists cooperated with law enforcement to maintain the public ordering of the sexes. On the basis of the Charité's medical records of a male patient, reported to have publically appeared in women's clothing and thereby making headlines in 1910 as the 'fake lady', the positions of psychiatrist Theodor Ziehen and sexual scientist Magnus Hirschfeld stand in contrast to one another--a development, which affected their forensic argumentation. As Hirschfeld had, in the same year 1910, introduced the concept of transvestitism to describe this very phenomenon, a transfer of competing interpretations out of sexual science and into psychiatry can be studied.

[Medical normativity in the diagnosis of schizophrenia at the Charité Hospital around 1920. An application of Grounded Theory to historical patient records].

This paper tests the applicability of the qualitative analytical method known as "Grounded Theory" for examining archival patient records. We take the introduction of schizophrenia as a diagnosis in the "Psychiatrische und Nervenklinik der Charité" in Berlin around 1920 as an example to ask about the norms that influenced psychiatrists' clinical judgments. In a first, introductory section of the essay, we demonstrate the specific steps of an analysis based on Grounded Theory by applying it to our material and highlighting some of the difficulties we encountered in the process.