The mechanistic viewpoint in nineteenth-century philosophy and science (psychology and physiology)

pp. 37-85

in: Gerlof Verwey, Psychiatry in an anthropological and biomedical context, Berlin, Springer, 1985

Abstract

The transition from anthropologically-oriented institutional psychiatry to so-called university psychiatry, which regarded itself as a natural science and which we associate with the name of Wilhelm Griesinger, is a change indicative of a comprehensive reorientation in scientific thinking in accordance with the so-called mechanistic viewpoint.