Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

The work methods of eminent psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) and of literary and
cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) are described based on the literature describing …

É crescente a lista de problemas que se transformaram em objeto de intervenção da
psiquiatria: tristeza profunda, estado de angústia, dificuldade de aprendizagem e …

Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) was an influential figure in the history of psychiatry as a clinical
science. This paper, after briefly presenting his biography, discusses the conceptual …

This article reviews Emil Kraepelin's address 'Hundert Jahre Psychiatrie', at the opening of
the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in 1917, and published as an essay in 1918 …

Narratives of Recovery from Mental Illness presents research that challenges the prevailing
view that recovery from 'mental illness' must take place within the boundaries of traditional …

This paper links the historical perspective with the actual debate on the concept of
schizophrenia. By this, two aims shall be accomplished. First, to prove that Eugen Bleuler's …

Вторая книга монографии содержит анализ систематики E. Kraepelin'а
функциональных психических болезней в 8-м, последнем прижизненном издании …

Since its beginnings psychiatry controversely debated about the appropriate concept of
illness, about nosology and the diagnostic terms and procedures based upon it. This paper …

Objective: The aim of this paper is to examine the background to the emblematic psychiatric
term, schizophrenia, the historical, cultural and social factors affecting the two men who …