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[REIL, Johann Christian (1759-1813)]. Rhapsodieen ber die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerrttungen. Dem Herrn Prediger Wagnitz zugeeignet. Halle: Curtschen Buchhandlung, 1803.
8o (192 x 118 mm). Contemporary tan paste-paper boards, hand-lettered paper spine label (slight wear at ends of spine, a few small ink stains on front cover), contemporary black paste-paper chemise with hand-lettered spine label, contemporary business accounts on verso of chemise.
FIRST EDITION and one of the important rarities of psychiatric literature: it is the foundation book for modern psychiatry (and in particular for German psychiatry). "Reil coined the term 'psychiatry,' and was the first to recognize that psychic methods of treatment belonged on an equal footing with medical and surgical therapies. He held enlightened views for his time on the treatment of mental illness...[and] on the organization of mental hospitals...He described what we would now call psychoneuroses, and observed cases of multiple personality and depersonalization" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 4923; Zilboorg & Henry, pp. 287-289; Norman 1821.
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FIRST EDITION and one of the important rarities of psychiatric literature: it is the foundation book for modern psychiatry (and in particular for German psychiatry). "Reil coined the term 'psychiatry,' and was the first to recognize that psychic methods of treatment belonged on an equal footing with medical and surgical therapies. He held enlightened views for his time on the treatment of mental illness...[and] on the organization of mental hospitals...He described what we would now call psychoneuroses, and observed cases of multiple personality and depersonalization" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 4923; Zilboorg & Henry, pp. 287-289; Norman 1821.