PMID: 2093463Dec 1, 1990Paper

70 years of educational, research and therapeutic-preventive activity at the Psychiatric Clinic of Brno University

Ceskoslovenská psychiatrie
J Svestka, M Bouchal

Abstract

The Medical Faculty of the Masaryk University in Brno and thus also the psychiatric department was established by act no. 50 of January 28, 1919 in the newly founded Czechoslovak Republic. Records on care of the mentally sick in municipal hospitals, later in the hospital of the brethren of mercy and finally in the municipal hospital in Pekarská street date to the 16th century. After establishment of the mental asylum in Brno--Cernovice in 1863 in the provincial hospital a department comprising 46 beds for mental patients proceeded with its activities and after the foundation of an independent Czechoslovak State it was transformed into a psychiatric and later psychiatric and neurological department. Despite the modest conditions heads, of the department, Prof. Dr. K. Bĕlohradský, Prof. Dr. H. Procházka and Prof. Dr. M. Krivý, managed to maintain a high clinical standard of patient care, teaching and research oriented above all on organic psychoses, examination of the cerebrospinal fluid and concurrent supporting psychotherapy. After closure of the Czech universities the department was transformed into a ward. After the Second World War the combined psychiatric and neurological department was headed by Prof. Dr. K. Popek. The fir...Continue Reading

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