Chalupová, Helena (2025) The Beginnings of Pediatric Psychiatry in the Czech Lands. HUNGARIAN HISTORICAL REVIEW: NEW SERIES OF ACTA HISTORICA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARIUM HUNGARICAE, 14 (4). pp. 537-562. ISSN 2063-8647
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Abstract
Records concerning mental disorders among children are sparse for the earliest period of the field of psychiatry in Bohemia, but they do exist. For a long time, however, no public care was actually available for mentally ill children. This paper investigates the formation of child psychiatry as a separate field in the Czech Lands, tracing the emergence of public care for mentally ill children and the establishment of the first educational institutions for children and adolescents. In Bohemia, these efforts date to 1871, when Karel Slavoj Amerling founded the Ernestinum, an institute for “feebleminded” children in Prague. In 1902, the first outpatient clinic for child psychiatry was established in Prague by Karel Herfort, the first professor of child psychopathology in Bohemia.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | pediatric psychiatry, mental disorders, children, Ernestinum, Karel Slavoj Amerling, Karel Herfort |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában R Medicine / orvostudomány > RJ Pediatrics / gyermekgyógyászat |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Feb 2026 08:10 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Feb 2026 08:10 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/234342 |
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