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Kraepelin

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[kre-puh-leen] / ˌkrɛ pəˈlin /

noun

  1. Emil 1856–1926, German psychiatrist.


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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

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 Myerson, Abraham

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