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
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
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
Their role model now is not Freud or Kraepelin, but the genetic revolution taking place in oncology.
From Nature ● Apr. 24, 2013
In some mental diseases the central disturbance is in the will, as Kraepelin postulates in the disease known as Dementia Praecox.
From The Foundations of Personality by Abraham Myerson
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