| Abstract: | Conclusion This paper has attempted to show the contributions and influence that the German Romanticists had on psychiatric thinking during the first half of the nine-tenth century. The Romanticists wrote in a flowery, poetic language. They did, however, bring forth many ideas and theories which seemed advanced for the time. In fact, some of their concepts may be found sprinkled here and there in present-day psychiatric and psychoanalytic thought, although usually in altered form. The Romanticists established the groundwork for the great discoveries which were to come after 1850. |
