A. Finzen et U. Hoffmannrichter, SOCIAL-PSYCHIATRY 1911 - THE ORIGIN OF TH E TERM IN THE WRITINGS OF FISCHERWIESLOCH,MAX, Psychiatrische Praxis, 22(4), 1995, pp. 167-170
The term ''Social Psychiatry'' was first used in English in 1917 by E.
E. Southard. Six years before, in 1981 Max Fischer director of Wieslo
ch Mental Hospital near Heidelberg employed the terms ''Sozialpsychiat
rie'' and ''Soziale Psychiatrie'' in German.