Philipp
Gutmann: Die Entstehung psychischer Störungen ex sexualibus:
Erklärungsansätze zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts
In the first half
of the 19th century there were the
first publications, which dealt systematically with the relation between
deviations of the sexual system or behaviour and mental disturbances. The
knowledge and the theoretical ideas of medicine and of psychiatric diseases at
that time and a discussion concerning the consequences of masturbation can be
demonstrated in works like „De mentis aberrationibus ex partium sexualium
conditione abnormi oriundis“ by Hermann Joseph Löwenstein (1823) and
„Ueber die Beziehungen des Sexualsystemes zur Psyche überhaupt und
zum Cretinismus ins Besondere“ by Joseph Häussler (1826). Both
publications try to sytemize the issue and prove their hypotheses by numerous
casuistics. The autors belong to the so called „Somatis School“ in
psychiatry at that time.