Autorentext

Stefanie Coché is a historian at the Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen. Her research interests are history of psychiatry, religious history, German history, and American history.

Klappentext

The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany's age of extremes.

Inhalt

1. Historical Parameters of Committal Practice-Psychiatry, State, and Society to 1941 2. The State and Psychiatric Institutions-Parameters and Committal Decisions 3. Danger and Security: On the Practice of Compulsory Committal 4. Disease and Diagnostics-Medical Aspects of Committal 5. Work and Performance-Ability and Inability to Work in Committal Rationales 6. Conclusion.