Psychiatrie. Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende und Ärzte von Dr. Emil Kraepelin, Professor an der Universität Heidelberg. 2 Bde.

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Sechste, vollständig umgearbeitete Auflage. - Leipzig, Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1899, 8°, XIII, 362; X, 607 pp., 6 Taf. in Autotypie, 3 Taf. in Lichtdruck, 16 Curven, 3 Diagramme, 13 Schriftproben, 2 Halbledereinbäde; St.a.Tit. "This textbook received its classical form in its 6th edition, in which the two large groups of psychotic illnesses were introduced for the first time: dementia praecox, which today is included in the schizophrenic group, and manic-depressive insanity, which today is expanded and generalised into the form of cyclothymia." H. Schipperges: Die berühmten Ärzte; ed. by Dumesnil & Schadewaldt; pp.293ff. "The sixth edition is notable in that in it manic-depressive psychoses were first mentioned as such. Kraepelin, professor of psychiatry successively at Dorpat, Heidelberg, and Munich, was one of the greatest of all psychiatrists and a pioneer of experimental psychiatry." Garrison & Morton "Manic-depressive psychosis is a mental disease known to man under various nomenclature for several thousand years. In the Book of Samuel, King Saul is described as afflicted with madness and melancholy. Hippocrates described a state of unrest which today would be recognized as "hypomania". However, until Emil Kraeplin correlated the seemingly opposite states of disordered affect as variations in a single disease, manic-depressive psychosis as we know it today was not universally accepted as "a single morbid process." Landolt, Follow-up Studies on Circular Manic-Depressive Reactions., p. 65 Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin (1856-1926) 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. Garrison & Morton No.4941 (1st.Ed.1883). Seller Inventory # 65866

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