Emil Kraepelin
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Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist who lived from 1856 to 1926 and is considered one of the foundational figures in modern psychiatry. His work establishing systematic classification systems for mental disorders laid crucial groundwork for how psychiatric conditions are understood and diagnosed today.
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- 1856
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- 1926
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- The university man and the alcohol question
- Psychiatrie
- Introduction à la psychiatrie clinique
- Die Königliche Psychiatrische Klinik im München
- Lebensschicksale deutscher Forscher
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Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (/ˈkrɛpəlɪn/; German: [ˈeːmiːl 'kʁɛːpəliːn]; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. Fellow psychiatrist Hans Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identified him as helping to lay the foundation for modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology, and psychiatric genetics.
Kraepelin believed the chief origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction. His theories dominated psychiatry at the start of the 20th century and, despite the later psychodynamic influence of Sigmund Freud and his disciples, enjoyed a revival at century's end. While he proclaimed his own high clinical standards of gathering information "by means of expert analysis of individual cases", he also drew on reported observations of officials not trained in psychiatry.
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