Review article
https://doi.org/10.31952/amha.23.1.4
The influence of the development of psychiatric thought on the classification of personality disorders in the 19th century
Zvonimir Paštar
orcid.org/0000-0002-2930-090X
; Klinika za psihijatriju Vrapče, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
This article presents the development of psychiatric thought during the long nineteenth century in Europe and Croatia, where the development of the classification of personality disorders is presented in more detail. This diagnostic category is on the border between mentally healthy and ill, which most vividly opens essential questions in psychiatric science. These questions were and remain the subject of scientific research in psychiatry, and they gained their foundations and momentum in the long nineteenth century, which is reflected in the fruitful activity of a large number of doctors and scientists of that time, from France, England, through Italy to Austria and Germany. The article also shows the contribution of Croatian doctors, especially Dr. Ivo Žirovčić, as the long-term director of the first psychiatric hospital in Croatia, in laying the foundations of Croatian psychiatry, the development of which was belatedly, but greatly accelerated by the opening of the Institute for the Mentally Ill in Stenjevac, today’s University Psychiatric Hospital Vrapče.
Keywords
History of psychiatry; History of Croatian psychiatry; Personality disorders
Hrčak ID:
336849
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Publication date:
29.10.2025.
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