Biographies A-Z

Herbeck, Ernst

(Pen name: Alexander), Austrian poet and long-term psychiatric patient

German-American physician, politician and medical historian.

American psychiatrist and founder of the self-help organisation “Recovery, Inc.”

Scottish 18th-century physician and philosopher

German wigmaker, soldier and convicted murderer whose case inspired Georg Bücher’s stage play “Woyzeck”

American social worker of Polish origin

German psychiatrist, pioneer of 20th century somatic psychiatry

American pioneer in psychiatric social work

Austrian artist and long-term psychiatric patient

German psychiatrist, opposed Nazi patient killings