Kraepelin's basic attitude to the classification of psychoses was data-oriented and flexible. In
his latter years he was close to revising his own celebrated dichotomy between manic …

Emil Kraepelin's view that psychotic disorders are naturally-occurring disease entities, and
that dementia praecox and manic-depressive psychosis represent two different diseases …

The year 2006 marked the 150 birth year of two key figures in the history of modern
psychiatry, Sigmund Freud and Emil Kraepelin. Although the celebration of Freud's …

Emil Kraepelin's (1856-1926) famous lecture" Zur Diagnose und Prognose der Dementia
praecox" was held in Heidelberg 100 years ago on 27. November 1889. In this lecture …

Emil Kraepelin is well known due to his development of the psychiatric classification. The
ICD-10 and DSM-IV classification is based on the dichotomy of endogenous psychoses into …

Emil Kraepelin's key contribution was to establish that there is a relationship between the
form of a psychotic illness and its outcome. Illnesses in which affective change is a …

Most contemporary psychiatrists associate with Emil Kraepelin's name a nosological system
of the main psychoses. In the 8th edition of his wellknown textbook, written after 1907, the so …

Abstract This article reviews Emil Kraepelin's approach to the differential diagnosis of
dementia praecox (or schizophrenia) and manic-depressive insanity (or affective illness) …

Since the time of the ancient Greeks, physicians have recognized a certain relatedness
between the mental states of depression and mania. In the mid-Nineteenth century, French …

Kraepelin himself had little doubt that schizophrenia (his dementia praecox) was a brain
disease:“We are concerned here with a palpable pathological process in the brain” 2 (p …