Luis II de Baviera, El Rey Loco (Ludwig, 1973). La peritación psiquiátrica para una incapacitación, un caso histórico
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García-Crego, J., & García-Fernández, J. V. (2023). Luis II de Baviera, El Rey Loco (Ludwig, 1973). La peritación psiquiátrica para una incapacitación, un caso histórico . Revista De Medicina Y Cine, 19(2), 169–181. https://doi.org/10.14201/rmc.31051
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En este trabajo, partiendo de un personaje histórico como fue Luis II de Baviera, se hace un estudio de las circunstancias y hechos que se aportaron durante la peritación que una comisión de psiquiatras llevó a cabo para incapacitar al rey y apartarlo de la jefatura del Estado de Baviera. Se repasa la historia clínica del rey, desde sus antecedentes familiares a los personales y enfermedad actual. Las sustancias de las que el rey era dependiente y los síntomas que presentaba cuando se procedió a incapacitarlo. Todo ello en un contexto que nos lleva a preguntarnos: ¿Lo que realmente ocurrió fue un golpe de Estado, amparándose en que el dictamen de los psiquiatras decía que el rey estaba incapacitado para gobernar? El autor cinematográfico Luchino Visconti, en una de sus películas de la trilogía alemana, Luis II de Baviera, el rey loco (Ludwig, 1973), nos muestra de una manera ejemplar, como se produjo aquel proceso.
This work, based on a historical character like Luis II of Bavaria, is a study of the circumstances surrounding the appraisal made by a Commission of psychiatrists to incapacitate the King and remove him from the leadership of the State of Bavaria. It makes a review of the clinical history of the King, from their family history to the personal one, the substances of which the King was dependent: chloroform, laudanum, alcohol and the symptoms presented on him when he was disabled, and everything with the evidence that what really happened was a coup d'Etat relying on the fact the King was unable to govern. This paper discusses possible diagnoses like Paranoia (according to the Expert Commission) to a PGP (tertiary syphilis) or the recent diagnoses of Dr. Haffner that state that what the King suffered was a bausuchtig, as well as a social phobia as a reaction to his homosexuality. In the final discussion we analyze of all these diagnostic and historical possibilities and we expose our opinion. The cinematographic author Luchino Visconti, in one of his films of the German trilogy, Ludwig (1973), shows us in an exemplary way, how that process took place.
This work, based on a historical character like Luis II of Bavaria, is a study of the circumstances surrounding the appraisal made by a Commission of psychiatrists to incapacitate the King and remove him from the leadership of the State of Bavaria. It makes a review of the clinical history of the King, from their family history to the personal one, the substances of which the King was dependent: chloroform, laudanum, alcohol and the symptoms presented on him when he was disabled, and everything with the evidence that what really happened was a coup d'Etat relying on the fact the King was unable to govern. This paper discusses possible diagnoses like Paranoia (according to the Expert Commission) to a PGP (tertiary syphilis) or the recent diagnoses of Dr. Haffner that state that what the King suffered was a bausuchtig, as well as a social phobia as a reaction to his homosexuality. In the final discussion we analyze of all these diagnostic and historical possibilities and we expose our opinion. The cinematographic author Luchino Visconti, in one of his films of the German trilogy, Ludwig (1973), shows us in an exemplary way, how that process took place.