2 Quotes & Sayings By Gottfried Feder
Gottfried Feder was born in Zittau, Saxony, Germany in 1844. He studied at the University of Munich where he received his medical degree. After serving for a brief time as a military physician in the Franco-Prussian War he emigrated to the United States in 1872. From 1872 to 1886 Dr
Feder was engaged in hospitals and sanitariums in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. He opened his first private psychiatric clinic in New York City in 1886. He was called "the father of American psychiatry" because of his influential writings on mental illness and his pioneering work in the field of preventive psychiatry.
His best known book is The Dangerous Irritation of the Nerves (1904).