Posted by Squiggles on September 24, 2006, at 9:23:25 [reposted on September 25, 2006, at 0:09:11 | original URL]
In reply to Re: the brain » Squiggles, posted by SLS on September 24, 2006, at 9:01:03
> > And btw, did you know that though Kraepelin recognized bipolar disorder as a definite, definable illness, he was sceptical about schizophrenia and speculated about its being in the class of severe anxiety; Most people just call him the father of making a distinction between bp and schizophrenia, and if you read his "Manic Depression Illness and Paranoia"-- it ain't so.
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> What ain't so? I'm confused (not such a difficult thing to accomplish).Many sites identify Kraepelin's contribution
as introducing a new categorization in psychiatric
taxonomy and recognizing the distinction between schizophrenia and manic-depressive illness. But infact, in his last chapter on this he seems to place schizophrenia in the larger class of Paranoias (which used to be called dementia praecox - meaning early dementia or dementia at youth).Squiggles
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> Thanks.
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> - Scott
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