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“Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.”

Quote by Emil Kraepelin

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Emil Kraepelin
Emil Kraepelin

German psychiatrist known as the father of modern psychiatry. Emil Kraepelin conducted extensive research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, proposing a classification system for schizophrenia that has had a profound impact on the development of psychiatry. more

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