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schizophrenia
schizophrenia , group of severe mental disorders characterized by reality distortions resulting in unusual thought patterns and behaviors. Because there is often little or no logical relationship between the thoughts and feelings of a person with schizophrenia, the disorder has often been called "... Read more
bipolar disorder
bipolar disorder formerly manic-depressive disorder or manic-depression, severe mental disorder involving manic episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression . The term "manic-depression" was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic ph... Read more
manic-depressive disorder
MANIC-DEPRESSIVE DISORDER [manic-depressive disorder] or bipolar disorder, severe mental disorder involving manic episodes that are usually accompanied by episodes of depression . The term was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic phase of the disorder ... Read more
psychiatry
psychiatry , branch of medicine that concerns the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders, including major depression , schizophrenia , and anxiety . Although the Greeks recognized the significance of emotions in mental disorders, medieval thought emphasized demonic... Read more
Emil Adolph von Behring
Emil Adolph von Behring , 1854-1917, German physician. He worked with Kitasato at Koch's laboratory in Berlin and from 1895 was professor of hygiene at Marburg. A pioneer in serum therapy, following the work of P. P. É. Roux, he demonstrated immunization against diphtheria (1890) and tetanus ... Read more
Emil Du Bois-Reymond
Emil Du Bois-Reymond , 1818-96, German physiologist of French descent. A pupil and successor (after 1858) of Johannes Müller at the Univ. of Berlin, he is known especially for his studies of nerve and muscle action, in which he demonstrated that electrical changes accompany muscle action. ... Read more
Emil Fischer
Emil Fischer , 1852-1919, German organic chemist. He is especially noted for his researches on the structure and synthesis of sugars and of purines and purine base derivatives, e.g., caffeine; for this work he received the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His many other valuable discoveries include a ... Read more
purine
purine type of organic base found in the nucleotides and nucleic acids of plant and animal tissue. The German chemist Emil Fischer did much of the basic work on purines and introduced the term into the chemical literature in the early 20th cent. The two major purines of almost universal distrib... Read more
Konrad Emil Bloch
Konrad Emil Bloch 1912-2000, American biochemist, b. Neisse, Germany (now Nysa, Poland). He became a U.S. citizen in 1944. Bloch was educated at Munich and at Columbia (Ph.D., 1938). He taught at Columbia and at the Univ. of Chicago (from 1946) before going to Harvard in 1954; he retired in 1982. H... Read more
Johan Ludwig Emil Dreyer
Johan Ludwig Emil Dreyer , 1852-1926, Danish astronomer, b. Copenhagen, who worked in Great Britain. He was assistant astronomer at the earl of Rosse's observatory, Parsonstown (now Birr), Ireland (1874-78), and at the observatory of the Univ. of Dublin (1878-82) and director (1882-1916) of the obse... Read more

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Emil Kraepelin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Emil Kraepelin , 1856-1926, German psychiatrist...where he also directed a clinic. Kraepelin authored nine editions of a textbook...analyzing thousands of case histories. Kraepelin was concerned only with diagnostic classification...
Mental Illness
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...disorders, are defined by discrete, clinically meaningful clusters of behavioral symptoms. The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856 – 1926) was the first to develop a unified classification of the psychoses. His emphasis on precision...
degeneration
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...popular among many of these thinkers; such claims were most famously made by Charcot and the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926), but were assumed by Nordau and other Jewish writers as well. Meanwhile, anthropologists...
Wilhelm Max Wundt
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...use of scientific methods in psychology, particularly through the use of introspection. The German psychiatrist, Emil Kraepelin , was his student. His works include Elements of Folk Psychology (tr. 1916, repr. 1983), and Introduction to...
bipolar disorder
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...accompanied by episodes of depression . The term "manic-depression" was introduced by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in 1896. The manic phase of the disorder is characterized by an abnormally elevated or irritable mood, grandiosity...
Schizophrenia
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior ...and course of illness in each vary. Detailed descriptions of the illness date back to the nineteenth century. Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) used the term dementia praecox to describe psychiatric states with an early onset and deteriorating...
schizophrenia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...different times. In 1896, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin grouped what were previously considered unrelated mental...essay by Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler corrected Kraepelin's theory that the disease was an organic brain deterioration...
Cyclothymic disorder
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders ...more than two months at a time. The noted psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin first described the symptoms of cyclothymic disorder in the late nineteenth century. Kraepelin described four types of personality disorders : depressive...
Madness
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...withdrawal that is not proportionate to the social circumstances of the sufferer. The eminent German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856 – 1926), writing at the turn of the nineteenth century, codified these two categories of disorder...
psychological disorders
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...discussion of the patient's dreams and memories of childhood? Or is she suffering from what German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin called dementia praecox , the antecedent of today's schizophrenia? Or is she a victim of syphilis , once dubbed...

Dictionary entries related to "Emil Kraepelin"

Aimée, Case of
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...of methodological synthesis. "Then came Kraepelin" (Lacan, 1932, p. 23). Emil Kraepelin succeeded in imposing differential diagnoses...Johannes Lange, coauthor of the 1927 edition of Kraepelin's Manual of Psychiatry , whose study of...
Paraphrenia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...later known as hebephrenia. Emil Kraepelin, in the eighth edition of Dementia...Eugen Bleuler suggested to replace Kraepelin's dementia praecox. He used...origine grecque . Paris: Masson. Kraepelin, Emil. (1971[1919]). Dementia...
Évolution Psychiatrique (L'-) (Developments in Psychiatry)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...an application of the nascent psychoanalysis to Emil Kraepelin's dementia praecox . Jacques Lacan's thesis, De...another example of this psychoanalytic rereading of Kraepelin's entities that was to renew psychiatry. After the...
Paranoid Psychosis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...sixth edition (1899) of his Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie , Emil Kraepelin, spoke of dementia praecox as an autonomous illness...chronic delusions corresponds to the observations of Kraepelin, and designated by him with the term "paraphrenia...
Dementia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...dementia praecox in the work of Emil Kraepelin. The second definition concerns...of psychotic development) and Kraepelin's three forms of dementia praecox...paranoid. Sigmund Freud approved of Kraepelin's approach but he criticized...
"Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" (Rat Man)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...much as he was later to do with the "Wolf Man," who had previously seen the leading psychiatrist in all Europe, Emil Kraepelin. During his second hour on the couch Lanzer recounted an incident that was the origin of his famous pseudonym. While...
Acute Psychoses
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...feelings of abjection and guilt that may be expressed in delusional form, and despair that may lead to suicide. Emil Kraepelin incorporated melancholia into manic-depressive psychosis. Karl Abraham, in his 1912 publication "Notes on the...
Infantile Psychosis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...and the recognition of the heterogeneity of clinical tableaux and their underlying conditions. Wilhelm Weygandt, Emil Kraepelin himself, and especially Sancte de Sanctis in 1908 with "dementia praecossime," described the infantile forms of...
Schreber, Daniel Paul (1842-1911)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...home went unheeded. Superintendent Guido Weber (using Emil Kraepelin's taxonomy) diagnosed him with incurable paranoia...delusional defense against homosexuality. Freud followed Kraepelin's classification but was more interested in syndromes...
Schizophrenia
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...population; its distribution is worldwide. A century after Emil Kraepelin created the diagnosis of dementia praecox and its extensive...thought from the start to have an organic basis, but Kraepelin was forced describe it as a "functional disorder...

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For philosophers, criticism and a call to service
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 8/11/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...the-century psychiatrist named Emil Kraepelin, Wieder explained how Sigmund Freud unjustly overshadowed Kraepelin, who first diagnosed schizophrenia...Wieder said the International Kraepelin Society planned to build a Hall...
What doctors know about Alzheimer
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 1/26/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...learn that his mentor and promoter Emil Kraepelin authorized the eponym "Alzheimer...cases published by another worker. Kraepelin may have judged Alzheimer to have...there existed some rivalry between Kraepelin's laboratory and that of Pick...
The trouble with psychiatry.(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual)
Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA); 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...19th-century German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was attempting to group mental...discovered Alzheimer's disease, and Kraepelin was confident that it would someday...psychiatric disorders. (2) While Kraepelin was formulating a new diagnostic...
Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...psychiatry in Europe, he writes about the famous Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926): "Kraepelin's fame rested on his distinction between dementia...on the other" (p.67). The truth is that Kraepelin was a firm believer in the somatic origins of...
Comics crucified.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Tribune (South Africa); 4/13/2008; 700+ words ; ...Seduction of the Innocent. Wertham's early influences were Sigmund Freud and Emil Kraepelin, often described as the father of modern psychiatry. Like Kraepelin, Wertham believed that environment and social background were crucial to psychological...
Advancing DSM: Dilemmas in Psychiatric Diagnosis
Magazine article from: American Journal of Psychotherapy; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...treated schizophrenia, and lithium treated mania. Emil Kraepelin's nosology, scorned for so long by leaders of American...Louis, a not-so-secret cabal began to resuscitate Kraepelin's nosology. It deleted the master's commitment...
The birth of schizophrenia: a debilitating mental disorder may take root in the fetal brain.
Magazine article from: Science News; 5/29/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...century ago, German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin described healthy young adults...to daily events or experiences. Kraepelin dubbed this condition "dementia...for the devastating ailment. But Kraepelin's concept has nonetheless exerted...
The Trouble with Psychiatry
Magazine article from: Skeptic; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...19thcentury German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin was attempting to group mental...discovered Alzheimer's disease, and Kraepelin was confident that it would someday...psychiatric disorders.2 While Kraepelin was formulating a new diagnostic...
Obituary: Robert Kendell Psychiatrist applied to defining psychosis
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/3/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...century a German psychiatrist, Emil Kraepelin, saw what he thought was a fundamental...Kendell- Gourlay result. What Kraepelin had discerned was that there was...significance, but it is one with which Kraepelin would have been dissatisfied...
The influence of music on the symptoms of psychosis: A meta-analysis
Magazine article from: Journal of Music Therapy; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...complications of execution. While Emil Kraepelin's pioneering work with schizophrenia...1990). A recurring problem in Kraepelin's early writings was that of...flaws have been pointed out in Kraepelin's `subjective and unquantified...