Posted by SLS on July 2, 2012, at 0:52:40
In reply to @sls, posted by johnLA on July 1, 2012, at 23:24:19
> .I don't usually bother with this type of stuff anymore when it is posted. I find it to be nothing more than propaganda to fit an agenda, which, of course, is an irony. One thing though, it is NOT the entire field of psychiatry that uses the fractional naming schema for categorizing bipolar disorder subtypes. It is the naming system of one doctor only - Hagop Akiskal (a devotee of Kraeplin*). His nomenclature has not been embraced by psychiatry in general, despite the fact that much of his work has been very important. The article you cited portrays as fact that Akiskal's naming system is already in general use. This is false. I find the rest of the article to be equally representative of the truth.
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> hi scott. hope you are doing ok.Hi John. I am still doing better, although I would like to find a way accelerate my rate of recovery. I guess I just want it all. :-)
> could you possibly give me the 'cliff-notes' of what you are saying in your post above?
"Manic Depression", as conceptualized by Emil Kraeplin, included just about any presentation of a mood disorder that had a chronic or recurrent course. His assumption was that there was a biological basis for these conditions. Kraeplin was certainly pioneering. Even Sigmund Freud, a neurologist, thought that mental illness had biological underpinnings. This was before he launched into psychoanalysis. I don't happen to know if this belief changed as he began to probe the psyche.
> i think understanding what you wrote a bit more may shed a bit of light on my situation.
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> thanks for any help.
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> johnI think I could be more helpful if I were to know what aspects of diagnostics you would like more information about. Certainly, if the "bipolar spectrum" is of interest to you, Hagop Akiskal is a logical choice of a person to investigate.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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