Kraepelin
Americannoun
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As inmate populations rose, Emil Kraepelin and other European scientists sought to trace insanity to its biological roots.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2019
Our own culture’s conception of the varieties of mental illness took shape first from a deck of cards curated by the pioneering German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin over a century ago.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
Kraepelin was a staunch critic of psychoanalysis and passionate advocate for understanding mental phenomena in strictly biological terms — attitudes now also ascendant in psychiatric biomedicine.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2018
Shocked by the discovery that patients with identical symptoms were receiving different diagnoses and treatments, an influential group of US psychiatrists threw out Freud and imported another role model from central Europe: psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin.
From Nature ● Apr. 24, 2013
Two cases are recorded by Kraepelin, among the insane.
From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew
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