Ragnar Vogt

Ragnar Vogt (17 June 1870 – 21 January 1943) was a Norwegian psychiatrist.

Biography

Ragnar Vogt was born in Tvedestrand. He studied in Norway, Denmark and Germany, and became a Doctor of Medical Science, specialist in psychiatry and treatment of alcoholism.

In 1915–1940, he was Norway's first professor of psychiatry. He was an abstainer and active in the abstinence movement. Vogt was one of the first in Norway to write about Sigmund Freud's theories, namely in the textbook Psychiatry's Basic Features (1905).

Vogt was also a supporter of racial hygiene. He believed that it was obvious that Negroes were biologically less well equipped than whites. He was interested in the significance of hereditary research for psychiatry and was central to the eugenics debate of the interwar period.

Works

• "Alkoholtrangen og alkoholafvænningen", Medicinsk Revue (1902)
• "Psykiatriens hovedtræk", Norsk Magazin for Lægevidenskaben (1903–08)
• Om drikkeskikke og alkoholisme: foredrag ved Den norske lægeforenings aarsmøde paa Hankø (1903)
• Psykiatriens grundtræk 1-2 (1905–09)
• "Om arvelighed", Tidsskrift for nordisk retsmedicin og psykiatri (1909)
• "Hysterisk sindssygdom", Tidsskrift for psykiatri og retsmedicin (1910–11)
• Arvelighetslære og racehygiene (1914)
• Nogen hovedlinjer i medicinsk psykologi og psykiatri (1923; 1935)
• Seksuallivet: råd og veiledning (1926; introduction)
• Den freudske psykoanalyse: dens historiske bakgrunn (1930)
• Etiske problemer: både-og (1935; 1939)
• Frihet-sannhet: festskrift til Johan Scharffenberg, 70-årsdagen 23. november 1939 (1939)
• Sjelelig energi: fem foredrag (1941)

References

• Sundet, Olav (1980). Ragnar Vogt. Norges første professor i psykiatri. Fondet for forsking og folkeopplysning.