Review article

THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHIATRY IN SERBIA

Srđan Milovanović ; Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia
Miroslava Jašović-Gašić ; Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia
Mihailo Pantović ; Center for Neurology, Medical Faculty and Clinical Centre "Kragujevac", Serbia
Slavica Đukić-Dejanović ; Psychiatric Clinic, Medical Faculty and Clinical Centre "Kragujevac", Serbia
Aleksandar A. Jovanović ; Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia
Aleksandar Damjanović ; Institute of Psychiatry, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Serbia
Dragan Ravanić ; Psychiatric Clinic, Medical Faculty and Clinical Centre "Kragujevac", Serbia

Abstract

The authors present the development of the concept of mental disease and treatment in Serbian medicine. Serbian medieval medicine did not acknowledge fortune telling, sorcery, the use of amulets and magical rituals and formulas. These progressive concepts were confirmed by the Church and the Serbian state in what is known as Dušan’s Code. The Historical data on the establishment of the first psychiatric hospital in the Balkans “Home for the Unsound of Mind” at Guberevac, Belgrade, in 1861 and its founders is reviewed. After World War I, in 1923, the Faculty of Medicine was established in Belgrade to which the coryphaei of Serbian medicine educated in Europe, mostly in France and Germany, flocked and that same year the Psychiatry Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade was set up. Its first seat was on the premises of the Mental Hospital in Belgrade, and it became a
training base and laid the foundations of the future Neuropsychiatry Clinic in Belgrade, which in time evolved into the nursery of psychiatric professionals for all of Serbia. The most important data on the further development of psychiatry up to date are presented.

Keywords

psychiatry; Serbia; development; history

Hrčak ID:

39639

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/39639

Publication date:

21.3.2009.

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