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Kraepelin

American  
[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

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

Kraepelin famously said that the conditions now known as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder were separate syndromes, with unique sets of symptoms and presumably unique causes.

From Nature • Apr. 24, 2013

Kraepelin regards tuberculosis as of very slight significance in the causation of insanity, despite the fact that slight changes in mood and in voluntary actions frequently accompany the course of the disease.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various