Posted by SLS on October 8, 2006, at 7:44:12
In reply to Re: Encephalitis lethargica » Squiggles, posted by SLS on October 8, 2006, at 7:23:19
> > 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?
Now, I am a bit confused. Encyclopedia Britannica got it wrong? I hate it when things I learned in college become worthless. Seems like most of it.
"Kraepelin, Emil(born Feb. 15, 1856, Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg-Strelitz-died Oct. 7, 1926, Munich, Ger.) German psychiatrist. He taught at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, where he developed an influential classification system for mental illness, the Psychiatric Compendium (nine eds., 1883–1926). He was the first to distinguish (in 1899) between manic-depressive psychosis (bipolar disorder) and dementia praecox (schizophrenia), and the first to distinguish three clinical varieties of the latter: catatonia, hebephrenia, and paranoia. "
http://www.answers.com/topic/emil-kraepelin
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9046179/Emil-Kraepelin
- Scott
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