Primer Certamen Frenopático Español (1883): estructura asistencial y aspectos administrativos

Abstract

In the latter part of the XIX century, an important group of physicians worked in Nueva Belén, a Mental Hospital located near Barcelona. Juan Giné y Partagás, the Director of Nueva Belén and his colleagues undertook investigation, clinical and academic work. This group organized the most important scientific meeting on Psychiatry in the last century in Spain, although Psychiatry had not yet been recognized as an independent science. The present article describes the organization and contents of the "Primer Certamen Frenopático Español" using the original records. It is mainly focused on the Congress communications which deal with administrative and asistencial aspects of that time.