Karl Leonhard
He was born at Edelsfeld in Bavaria as the sixth of eleven children, his father being a Protestant minister.In 1957 he became director of the psychiatric department at the Charité Hospital linked to the Humboldt University in East Berlin.He wanted to move back to West Germany in the 1960s, but was refused permission by the East German authorities.According to Helmut Beckmann (see "Books" below), editors of Western journals rejected his papers because "they were not in conformity with the standard practice of Anglo-American psychiatry and also because he pursued without compromise his own path derived from his findings."Today diagnosis for psychotic patients and mentally or otherwise ill persons are most commonly placed by ICD or DSM criteria.