Schelling’s legacy on psychiatry: Reil, Haindorf and Heinroth
Abstract
This paper explores Schelling’s influence on the birth of psychiatry in Germany. To do this, two arguments are presented. The first ex‐amines the intellectual development of Reil, a physician who coined the term› psychiatry‹(Psychiatrie in German). Behind his proposal, there is a Schellingian intellectual heritage. The second argument re‐veals the significant influence of Schelling on two of the best-known psychiatrists of his time in Germany: Haindorf and Heinroth.