The working group “History of Psychiatry in Baden-Württemberg” goes back to a working group, which was established in 1995. The group regularly organises regional-historical conferences, whose essential purpose is the development of research collaboration and knowledge exchange on the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy in the geographic area of the former Baden and Wuerttemberg. The group of participants consists of professional historians, clinical-psychiatric experts, other relevant occupational groups as well as laymen interested in history, who take an active or passive part in the annual meetings. The intended joining of these stakeholders represents the attitude of the working group’s organizers (Research Unit for the History of Medicine and the staff of the Wuerttemberg Museum of Psychiatry) to exchange views in a timely manner on the results of academic-scientific research and to make these results available to a wider and interested public. Here, motivation for the organisation of meetings and museum-pedagogical claim meet in the work of the Wuerttemberg Museum of Psychiatry. The meetings and the resulting research collaborations repeatedly led also to publications.

Annual meetings since 1995:
(Information, links, conference reports and further material in German)

Working Group “History of Psychiatry in Baden-Wuerttemberg” / Coordination „Historical Research“ of the Centres for Psychiatry Baden-Wuerttemberg

Since spring 2007, our research unit (“Historical Research”) has been coordinating the historical research at all Centres for Psychiatry in Baden-Wuerttemberg.
This function of coordination contains a number of single tasks. At first, this provides design of an inventory of the archive documents preserving in the Centres themselves as well as those stocks which are edited and made available for the medical-historical research by the State Archives or the Regional Archives of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Within the framework of this coordinational activity and in accord with its nature, it is necessary to resolve open questions of preservational procedures and of dealing with contemporary data stocks. In accord with the requirements of the State Office for Data Protection, we aim at a concerted solution with the State Archives on the dealing with relevant archive documents and materials.
The protection and preservation of worth protecting old stocks of the partly approx. 200-years-old collections of medical literature in the scientific libraries of the single locations represents another important task in that realm. The dealing with historical articles and other collection objects as well enjoy a high level of importance against the background of the workup and presentation of these objects in the Wuerttemberg Museum of Psychiatry. The focus of interest here is the storage, utilisation or lending of these objects.

The working group “History of Psychiatry in Baden-Württemberg” goes back to a working group, which had been established in 1995. The circle today regularly organises regional-historical conferences, whose essential purpose is the development of research collaboration and knowledge exchange on the history of psychiatry and psychotherapy in the geographic area of the former states Baden, Hohenzollern and Wuerttemberg. The group of participants consists of professional historians, clinical-psychiatric experts, other relevant occupational groups as well as laymen interested in history, who take an active or passive part in the annual meetings. The intended joining of these stakeholders represents the attitude of the working group’s organizers (Research Unit for the History of Medicine and the staff of the Wuerttemberg Museum of Psychiatry) to exchange views in a timely manner on the results of academic-scientific research and to make these results available to a wider and interested public. Here, motivation for the organisation of meetings and pedagogical claim oft he museum’s staff meet in the work of the Wuerttemberg Museum of Psychiatry. The meetings and the resulting research collaborations repeatedly leads to publications.