Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia

By George M B 1864 Robertson and Emil Kraepelin

Book Overview

The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856 - 1926) is justly called the father of modern psychiatry. He was the first to identify dementia praecox (schizophrenia) and manic-depression, and he pioneered the use of drugs to treat mental illness. He was also joint discoverer of Alzheimer's disease - which he named after his collaborator, Dr Alois Alzheimer. Kraepelin presented these and other discoveries in successive editions of his Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch (definitive 8th edition also now available from Thoemmes Press). Much of this gigantic textbook can only be read in the original German; but parts of it were translated into English, and they had a very profound influence on the development of world psychiatry for the rest of the 20th century.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1855069741
• ISBN13: 9781855069749
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Thoemmes Press
• Length: 334 Pages