Saxon Psychiatric Museum

The Saxon Psychiatric Museum is a small museum in Leipzig and deals with the history of lunatic asylums and psychiatry. It is organized by the Durchblick association, an initiative for people affected by psychiatry in Leipzig. It was founded in 2000. The special exhibitions deal with individual fates, careers and institutions:

the life stories of the court president Daniel Paul Schreber and the Saxon dialect poet Lene Voigt
the biographies and therapeutic concepts of doctors and psychiatrists such as Christian August Fürchtegott Hayner and Hermann Paul Nitsche
the development of psychiatric institutions in Saxony in the Middle Ages up to the sanatorium and nursing homes.

WWW psychiatriemuseum.de

Literature

Hubert Kolling. Review from 21 May 2014 in German language to: Thomas R. Müller: Wahn und Sinn. Patienten, Ärzte, Personal und Institutionen der Psychiatrie in Sachsen vom Mittelalter bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts. Katalog zur Dauerausstellung des Sächsischen Psychiatriemuseums., Mabuse-Verlag GmbH 2014. 2nd, corr. and supplemented edition.. Saxon Psychiatry Museum Leipzig of the people's affected by psychiatry association Durchblick eV In: socialnet reviews, ISSN 2190-9245,, date of access 14 May 2023.