Neustrelitz, Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German Confederation
Died
7 October 1926(1926-10-07) (aged 70)
Munich, Bavaria, Weimar Germany
Nationality
German
Alma mater
Leipzig University University of Würzburg (MBBS, 1878) Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Dr. hab. med., 1882)
Known for
Classification of mental disorders, Kraepelinian dichotomy
Spouse
Ina Marie Marie Wilhelmine Schwabe[1]
Children
2 sons, 6 daughters[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Psychiatry
Institutions
Leipzig University University of Dorpat University of Heidelberg Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Thesis
The Place of Psychology in Psychiatry (1882)
Signature
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.
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.
His textbooks do not contain detailed case histories of individuals but mosaic-like compilations of typical statements and behaviors from patients with a specific diagnosis. He has been described as "a scientific manager" and "a political operator", who developed "a large-scale, clinically oriented, epidemiological research programme".[2][3]
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^Engstrom, E. J. (1 September 2007). "On the Question of Degeneration' by Emil Kraepelin (1908)1" (PDF). History of Psychiatry. 18 (3): 389–398. doi:10.1177/0957154X07079689. PMID 18175639. S2CID 46482747. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2013..
^Shepherd, M. (1 August 1995). "Two faces of Emil Kraepelin". The British Journal of Psychiatry. 167 (2): 174–183. doi:10.1192/bjp.167.2.174. PMID 7582666. S2CID 37204909.
Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (/ˈkrɛpəlɪn/; German: [ˈeːmiːl 'kʁɛːpəliːn]; 15 February 1856 – 7 October 1926) was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's...
by the composer Richard Wagner—and the leading German psychiatrist EmilKraepelin later wrote extensively on the dangers posed by degeneration to the...
"hebephrenia" (an adolescent-onset psychotic condition). German psychiatrist EmilKraepelin (1856–1926) popularised the term dementia praecox in his first detailed...
Kraepelin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: EmilKraepelin (1856–1926), German psychiatrist Karl Kraepelin (1848–1915), German naturalist...
speech in which errors occur during a dream. The term was coined by EmilKraepelin in his 1906 monograph titled Über Sprachstörungen im Traume ("On Language...
a colleague of EmilKraepelin. Alzheimer is credited with identifying the first published case of "presenile dementia", which Kraepelin would later identify...
annals) in 1854. These concepts were developed by the German psychiatrist EmilKraepelin (1856–1926), who, using Kahlbaum's concept of cyclothymia, categorized...
disorder. This division was formally introduced in the sixth edition of EmilKraepelin's psychiatric textbook Psychiatrie. Ein Lehrbuch für Studirende und Aerzte...
disorders from schizophrenia, known as the Kraepelinian dichotomy. EmilKraepelin introduced the idea that schizophrenia was separate from mood disorders...
between-group differences were small. According to German psychiatrist EmilKraepelin, patients with delusional disorder remain coherent, sensible and reasonable...
paranoia, dementia praecox, manic-depressive insanity and epilepsy (EmilKraepelin's classification). Dementia praecox was reconstituted as schizophrenia...
19th-century belief prevalent in German psychiatry until the era of EmilKraepelin that all forms of psychosis were surface variations of a single underlying...
haltlose personality disorder was described by EmilKraepelin and Gustav Aschaffenburg. In 1905, Kraepelin first used the term to describe individuals possessing...
(1838–1887), gynecologist Karl Kraepelin (1848–1915), biologist, founder of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg Emil Cohn (1854–1944), physicist worked...
understaffed, under-resourced, and were accused of violating human rights. EmilKraepelin in 1896 developed the taxonomy of mental disorders which has dominated...
and "psychotic erotic transference reaction and delusional loving". EmilKraepelin and Bernard also wrote of erotomania and more recently, Winokur, Kendler...
German psychiatrist EmilKraepelin was the first to distinguish manic depression. The influential system put forward by Kraepelin unified nearly all types...
psychiatric hospital in Heidelberg under Franz Nissl, the successor of EmilKraepelin and Karl Bonhoeffer, and Karl Wilmans. Jaspers became dissatisfied with...
German Psychiatric Research Institute in Munich, which was founded by EmilKraepelin. Disgusted by the developing tide of psychiatric eugenics championed...
be introduced. The career of EmilKraepelin reflects the convergence of different disciplines in psychiatry. Kraepelin initially was very attracted to...
maintaining the racial and biological health of national populations. EmilKraepelin (1856–1926) introduced new medical categories of mental illness, which...
recorded diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Years later, in the early 1900s, EmilKraepelin, a German psychiatrist, analyzed the influence of biology on mental...
During the following year, he began clinical work under the psychiatrist EmilKraepelin and did laboratory work with Franz Nissl and Alois Alzheimer in Munich...
he and his colleagues had been using the term in Zurich to replace EmilKraepelin's term dementia praecox since 1907. He revised and expanded his schizophrenia...
be an act of self-forgetting. The first critique to Freud came from EmilKraepelin, who in a postscript to his 1906 monograph on language disturbances...
early classification of physical illnesses. In the late 19th century, EmilKraepelin and then Jacques Bertillon developed their own nosologies. Bertillon's...
most vocal critics of the "natural disease entities" classification of EmilKraepelin. As is the custom in German universities, in order to be eligible for...
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