[Protagonists, conflicts, and interests: Wilhelm Griesinger's trials in the reforming of the psychiatric ward of the Berlin Charité, 1865-1868]

In June 1865, two months after his appointment as head of the Psychiatric Ward of the Berlin Charité hospital, Wilhelm Griesinger (1817-1868) made reform proposals for introducing the method of non-restraint treatment. After tough negotiations, the hospital's administrator, Karl Heinrich Esse, approved only some of Griesinger's proposals. Further conflicts with other relevant agents, such as the ward's inspector and the nursing staff, illustrate the complex "making" of non-restraint psychiatry.