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Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin ( / ˈkrɛpəlɪn /; 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 was an influential German psychiatrist who lived in the late 19 th and the early 20 th century. His work had a major impact on modern psychiatry and its understanding of mental illnesses based on natural scientific concepts.
Mar 20, 2024 · Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist, one of the most influential of his time, who developed a classification system for mental illness that influenced subsequent classifications. Kraepelin made distinctions between schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis that remain valid today.
Emil Kraepelin was a 19th century psychiatrist who theorized that biological abnormalities and genetic mutations were the primary causes of psychiatric conditions.
Aug 2, 2021 · Emil Kraepelin, more than any other individual, has shaped the nature of our psychiatric diagnostic system. Kraepelin published his final contribution to psychiatric nosology as an...
Sep 11, 2015 · For postpsychoanalytic 20th- and 21st-century American psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) has been an icon who helped guide us to the now dominant view of psychiatry that is medical in orientation, diagnostic in focus, and based predominantly on the brain.
The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) is probably best known today for having distinguished between dementia praecox (or what we have come to call schizophrenia) on the one hand and manic-depressive illness on the other.
