Posted by SLS on October 8, 2006, at 7:23:19
In reply to Encephalitis lethargica » Racer, posted by Squiggles on October 8, 2006, at 6:53:03
> As much as I appreciate his historical
> description of mental health in America,
> this point I think is dubious; and once again
> Kraepelin did not distinguish schizophrenia
> as unique from manic depression.
> He thought schizophrenia was a species of paranoia
> or extreme anxiety. I don't know who made
> that distinction, but it was not him-- perhaps
> it preceded him; maybe it was Freud.
Wikipedia is pretty cool, but it is a collaborative effort of the public, so you have to be careful."The term, dementia praecox, was first used to describe a psychotic disorder by the French physician Benedict-Augustin Morel in 1853,"
"Dementia praecox ("premature dementia") is a term popularized by German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) in 1896, to describe the condition that would eventually be labeled schizophrenia."
So now, I do understand that Kraeplin could have done anything he wanted to with this term. However, you are saying that he demoted it from being a separate disorder to being a part of a spectrum of some sort?
- Scott
poster:SLS
thread:691873
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20061003/msgs/692933.html