Burkhart Brückner (2025): Wahnsinn und Hospitalisierung – Bibliographie gedruckter deutschsprachiger Selbstzeugnisse, 1800-1999
Over 1,100 printed personal accounts from two centuries tell of life with madness and hospitalisation. This collection is the first to cover the entire spectrum of such diaries, letters, texts and autobiographical reports in German language. The illustrated bibliography invites readers to explore the sources and to understand and investigate the experiences of the authors, their narratives and their knowledge from their perspective. An afterword by Ferenc Jádi complements the bibliography with psychodynamic and aesthetic aspects.
The e-book (ISBN: 978-3-96605-340-2) is available for download here (Open Access; Creative Commons-License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.).
The print edition (ISBN: 978-3-96605-338-9) is published by Psychiatrie-Verlag in Cologne.