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Lectures on clinical psychiatry
- Author:
- KRAEPLIN Emil
- Publisher:
- Classics of Medicine Library
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 368p.
- Place of publication:
- Bethesda, MD
- Edition:
- Special ed.
Kraepelin authored nine editions of a textbook which classified mental diseases according to their cause, symptomatology, course, final stage, and pathological anatomical findings, producing a system of classification which has relevance even today. He established the clinical pictures of dementia praecox (now known as schizophrenia) in 1893, and of manic-depressive psychosis (see depression) in 1899, after analyzing thousands of case histories. Kraepelin was concerned only with diagnostic classification, and did not accept the theory of unconscious mental activity postulated by psychoanalysts. His classification of mental disorders served as the foundation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), the standard reference text used by psychiatrists today The modern conception of delusional disorder is based on Kraepelin's original analysis best delineated in his interpretation of Paul Schreber.