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Published Online: December 1967

Paracelsus' Psychiatry: On the Occasion of the 400th Anniversary of His Book "Diseases That Deprive Man of His Reason" (1567)

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

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Although Paracelsus has been called a fore-runner of modern psychiatry, his thinking was and remains highly controversial, as this author points out. His approach to reality was essentially an expression of medieval philosophy; he was, however, among the first to locate the roots of the personality in passions and the will and to consider the pathos of man's existential condition between instincts and spirit.

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Pages: 803 - 814
PubMed: 4862954

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Published in print: December 1967
Published online: 1 April 2006

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GEORGE MORA
Medical Director, the Astor Home for Children, Rhinebeck, N. Y., and Research Associate, Department of History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

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