Caspar Max Brosius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Caspar Max Brosius
- Caspar Maximilian Brosius (12 June 1825 – 17 February 1910) was a German physician and psychiatrist born in Burgsteinfurt, Westphalia. Son of a parish doctor, Brosius studied medicine at the Universities of Greifswald and Bonn, receiving his doctorate in 1848 with a dissertation titled De hebetudine animi (Über den Stumpfsinn der Seele).
- Following graduation, he practiced medicine in Burgsteinfurt, and in 1855 started work as an assistant to Adolph Albrecht Erlenmeyer (1822-1877) at the Asyl für Gehirn- und Nervenkranke in Bendorf bei Koblenz. In 1857 he established a private psychiatric hospital at his homestead in Bendorf, where he created a humanitarian environment for the mentally ill based on a philosophy he called the "familiare system" (family system).
- In the following decades the facility underwent considerable expansion in size and function.
- At Bendorf he strove in providing living conditions for the mentally ill that were the equivalent to those of the healthy, non-institutionalized public.
- He believed that his patients should have a place where they "felt at home", and deemed it necessary to assess and treat them on an individual basis. In 1859, with Friedrich Koster (1822-1893), he was a contributing editor of the psychiatric journal Der Irrenfreund, becoming its sole editor from 1878.
- In 1860 he published a translation of John Conolly's "Treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints" as Die Behandlung der Irren ohne mechanischen Zwang.
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