Bernhard von Gudden

Neuropathologist and psychiatrist born in 1824 and died in 1886, Bernhard von Gudden was the doctor of Louis II of Bavaria with which he died mysteriously in Berg. It had carried on him the diagnosis of Paranoïa. It had inity the practice of the “no-restraint system”, it refused for example to bind its patients, it granted exits as soon as possible, etc to them It had on alienation an assumption that it in experiments tried to check: the traumatic origin concerned with a hématome of the ear! He had also noticed the frequency of the fractures of the coasts (often associated with the hématome of the ear besides) which, for its predecessors was in relation to the madness but which for von Gudden was the result of brusquenesses of the " gardiens" malformed and badly paids. In connection with the Phrenology " he said: “I am not a partisan of doctrines localisatrice, but I am not therefore an adversary of any localization”.

He in particular was the Master of Emil Kraepelin and Auguste Forel.

What Emil Kraepelin said

  • “(...) the essential feature of this personality was the frantic search for absolutely sure and unquestionable facts. The only way towards the knowledge of the psychiatric labyrinth seemed to him increasingly fine anatomical cutting brain. He detested the clinical observation (...)” "

  • “(...) As I answered in the affirmative (with Wilhelm Wundt) his question, it felt obliged to inform me of its reserves as for the realization of my project ( to become philosophical ). He pointed out me that this branch of the Philosophie (i.e. the experimental Psychologie) was not likely any to be soon recognized by the academic authorities, that I would thus not be a professor of as soon as, and that I will have to most probably give to the Greek calendars my marriage. (...) During the autumn 1883, I was thus going to find (Von Gudden) to maintain it my problems. It was very resolutely in favor of my return in the bosom of the Psychiatrie”

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