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| Discussing psychiatry in Europe, he writes about the famous Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926): "Kraepelin's fame rested on his distinction between dementia praecox [today termed schizophrenia], which he deemed the result of external causes (traumas) and possibly treatable through psychological techniques, on the one hand, and hereditary and incurable diseases of the brain, on the other" (p. The disease was named after him by his senior mentor at the Munich Medical School, Emil Kraepelin. 7) The so-called neo-Kraepelinians comprised a relatively small group of research oriented psychiatrist-nosologists, who, in the 1960s and 1970s, promulgated tenets of diagnostic classification first advanced by nineteenth century German nosologist, Emil Kraepelin. |
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