The face of madness in Romania
The origin of psychiatric photography in Eastern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19445042 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Octavian Buda (0000-0002-1455-8246, 'Carol Davila' University / 'Mina Minovici' National Institute of Legal Medicine, Bucharest, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 278-293 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957154x09355726 |
| PMID | 21879687 |
| OpenAlex | W2167174314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 4 |
In 1870 the Romanian physician Nicolae G. Chernbach published a photographic atlas of the main types of mental alienation, a collection of twelve plates depicting mentally ill patients from the Marcutza Asylum in Bucharest. Each photograph included a diagnosis based on the clinical nosography and theories of the physiognomy of insanity acknowledged during the period. The publication of the atlas — just a few years after Hugh W. Diamond’s initial use of photography for this purpose in Britain in the 1850s — means that the photographs were not only the first taken in Romania, but among the first photographs of the mentally ill. This study provides an insight into the origins of modern clinical psychiatry and medical advances in Romania, and the contemporary personalities in Romanian and Eastern European medicine
Alienation · Art · Insanity · Mental health · Mental illness · Mentally ill · Photography · Physiognomy · Political science · Psychiatry · Romanian · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neurology and Historical Studies · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |