Jakob Klaesi
Jakob Klaesi was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the sleep therapy and his phenomenological analysis of expression.Life
From 1903 to 1909, Klaesi studied medicine in Zurich, Kiel and Munich; in 1912 he received his doctorate in Zurich and was then trained as a psychiatrist. From 1923 to 1926 he was chief physician at the Psychiatric University Clinic in Basel, and later head of the private clinic Knonau. From 1933 he was extraordinary Professor, 1936-53 full professor of psychiatry at University of Bern and director of the Psychiatric Clinic Waldau beginning 1 April 1933.
Klaesi was known for the introduction of the Sleep Treatment. He set up colonies for the sick, and in 1934, he founded the psychiatric clinic of Berne. As a teacher he influenced the training of physicians significantly. Klaesi wrote also poems and plays.Published works
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Ueber psychiatrischpoliklinische Behandlungsmethoden", Z. Ges. Neurol. Psychiat., 36:431–450
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Die psychogenen Ursachen der essentiellen Enuresis nocturna infantum", Schweiz. Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. 35:371
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Ueber Somnifen, eine medikamentöse Therapie schizophrener Aufregungszustände", Schweiz. Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. 8:131
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Ueber die therapeutische Anwendung der ‘Dauernarkose’ mittels Somnifen bei Schizophrenen",Z. Ges. Neurol. Psychiat., 74:557
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Die Irrenanstalt als Weg zur Rückkehr ins Leben", In: Vom seelischen Kranksein, Vorbeugen und Heilen. Paul Haupt, Bern/Leipzig
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Ohne Insulin", Schweiz. Med. Wochenschr. 68:1164
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Der unheilbare Kranke und seine Behandlung", Rektoratsrede University of Berne, 18. 11. 1950, Paul Haupt, Bern
- Klaesi, Jakob "Psychotherapie in der Klinik", Montasschr. Psychiat. Neurol. 124: 334–353
- Klaesi, Jakob "Ueber Neurosenlehre und Psychotherapie", In: von Bergmann, G., Handbuch der Inneren Medizin, Springer, Berlin/Göttingen/Heidelberg
- Klaesi, Jakob, Gott und sein Zweifler'', Werner Classen, Zürich
- Klaesi, Jakob, "Psychiatrie in Selbstdarstellungen", In: Pongratz L. J..... Hans Huber, Bern
