Christian Friedrich Nasse

Christian Friedrich Nasse (April 18, 1778 - April 18, 1851) was a German psychiatrist who was born in Bielefeld. He studied medicine at the University of Halle under physiologist Johann Christian Reil (1759–1813), and following graduation returned to Bielefeld as a general practitioner and later director of a hospital for the poor. In 1815 he returned to Halle as a lecturer at the university, and from 1819 to 1851 was a professor at the University of Bonn.

Nasse was a member of the somatic school of psychiatry that was popular during the first half of the 19th century in Germany. He believed that diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders depended on investigation of the somatic activity of a patient, formulating his belief system on the basis that physical disease produced a disturbance in the relationship between the psyche and the body.^[1] He was interested in the works of Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776–1841), and skeptical of natural philosophers. Nasse is credited for introducing the practical experience of "bedside diagnosis" into the university lecture hall.

In 1818 he founded a journal for psychiatrists called Zeitschrift für psychische Ärzte (later renamed Jahrbücher für Anthropologie). In addition, with Carl Wigand Maximilian Jacobi (1775–1858), he published a short-lived journal titled Zeitschrift für Heilung und Beurtheilung krankhafter Seelenstörungen (Journal for the Healing and Diagnosis of Pathological Mental Disorders.

• Associated eponym:
• Nasse's law: Law that states that hemophilia occurs only in males but is transmitted through unaffected females.

Selected written works

• Handbuch der speciellen Therapie, (1826–28)
• Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie, (1840)
• Vermischte Schriften psychologischen und physiologischen Inhalts (1850)
• Untersuchungen zur Physiologie und Patholoqie (1835–39)

See also

• Psychosomatic illness

References

• [2] Who are the central figures of Romantic Anthropology? (biography)
• Online Medical Dictionary definition of eponym

1. ^ [1] Psychosomatic Medicine, an Historical Perspective by Gregory Zilboorg, M.D.

• List of written works copied from the Swedish Wikipedia.

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Name	Nasse, Christian Freidrich
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Date of birth	April 18, 1778
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Date of death	April 18, 1851
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