Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German psychiatrist
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Place of Birth: Rhaunen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser
- Sigbert Josef Maria Ganser (24 January 1853, Rhaunen, Rhine Province – 4 January 1931, Dresden, Saxony) was a German psychiatrist born in Rhaunen.
- He earned his medical doctorate in 1876 from the University of Munich.
- Afterwards he worked briefly at a psychiatric clinic in Würzburg, and later as an assistant to neuroanatomist Bernhard von Gudden (1824-1886) in Munich.
- In 1886, he became head of the psychiatric department at Dresden General Hospital.
- Among his students was neurologist Hans Queckenstedt (1876-1918).Sigbert Ganser is remembered for a hysterical disorder that he first described in 1898.
- He identified the disorder in three prisoners while working at a prison in Halle.
- The features included approximate or nonsensical answers to simple questions, perceptual abnormalities, and clouding of consciousness.
- Ganser believed that these symptoms were an associative reaction caused by an unconscious attempt by the patient to escape from an intolerable mental situation.
- The disorder was to become known as Ganser syndrome.
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