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A major influence on the theory was Emil Kraepelin, lining up degeneration theory with his psychiatry practice. The central idea of this concept was that in "degenerative" illness, there is a steady decline in mental functioning and social adaptation from one generation to the other.
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (/ ˈ k r ɛ p əl ɪ n /; German: [ˈeːmiːl 'kʁɛːpəliːn]; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.
Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926). The Kraepelinian dichotomy is the division of the major endogenous psychoses into the disease concepts of dementia praecox, which was reformulated as schizophrenia by Eugen Bleuler by 1908, [1] [2] and manic-depressive psychosis, which has now been reconceived as bipolar disorder. [3]
Magnan describes compulsive buying as a symptom of social degeneration. [9] In his book Degeneration (1892), Nordau calls oniomania or "buying craze" a "stigma of degeneration". [10] Emil Kraepelin described oniomania as of 1909, [11] and he and Bleuler both included the syndrome in their influential early psychiatric textbooks. [12]
Descriptive psychiatry is based on the study of observable symptoms and behavioral phenomena rather than underlying psychodynamic processes. In descriptive psychiatry, the clinical psychiatrist focuses on empirically observable behaviors and conditions, such as words spoken or actions taken.
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease as a distinct nosologic entity were first identified by Emil Kraepelin, who worked in Alzheimer's laboratory, and the characteristic neuropathology was first observed by Alois Alzheimer in 1906. Because of the overwhelming importance Kraepelin attached to finding the neuropathological basis of psychiatric ...
Later, Kraepelin's stance changed, broadly in line with the results of a study he had commissioned by his colleague Georges L. Dreyfus: by the time of the publication of the eighth edition of his textbook in 1913, he had incorporated involutional melancholia under the general heading of 'manic-depressive illness'. [1] [3]
German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin clinically defined "dementia praecox", later reformulated as schizophrenia. 1895. Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer of Austria published Studies on Hysteria, based on the case of Bertha Pappenheim (known as Anna O.), developing the Talking Cure; Freud and Breuer later split over Freud's obsession with sex. 1899