This book first appeared in Germany in 2004. In response to the great amount of interest in the book expressed by colleagues from all over the world, we subsequently decided to produce this English version. We have also taken this opportunity to update the information on the Department of Psychiatry since 1994 to include further developments up to the present day (see Chapter 15). One can look at a hospital from all kinds of different perspectives. For psychiatrists with the daily medical task of dealing with the life histories of their patients, it is understandable that they are interested in the development of their hospital from a historical perspective. To do this for the University Department of Psychiatry of Munich an introduction can be made by reminding the reader of a date: just over 100 years ago, on November 7, 1904, the newly constructed "Royal Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Munich" was inaugurated with a ceremonial act and handed over to the public. Emil Kraepelin gave a ceremonial speech on the occasion.

Early Psychiatric Institutions in Munich

Psychiatric Care in Bavaria in the 19th Century
The Chair for Psychiatry at the Medical Faculty of the University of Munich
Bernhard von Gudden, Doctor and Founder of Modern Neuromorphology
Planning and Construction of the Royel Psychiatric University Hospital in the Nussbaumstrasse
The Opening of the Psychiatric Hospital in 1904 by Emil Kraepelin
The Munich Hospital Managed by Emil Kraepelin
The Idea and Planning of the German Psychiztric Research Inatitute
Oswald Bumke and his Munich Workgroup
The Post War Period and Beginning of the Hospital's Reconstruction under Georg Stertz
Kurt Kolle and Plans for a New Hospital Building in Grosshadern
Division of the » Hospital for Nervous Diseases« into a Psychiatric Hospital in the Inner City and a Neurological Hospital in Grosshadern
The Psychiatric Hospital 1971-1994
The Re-Opening of the Historical Old Building
The Psychiatric Hospital since 1994
Scientific publications since 2000.