“The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.”
Quote by Emil Kraepelin
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Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia
The book offers in-depth analysis of Kraepelin's groundbreaking work on manic-depressive illness and paranoia, providing a historical perspective on the development of psychiatric understanding. It includes detailed discussions of Kraepelin's classification system and his contributions to the field of mental health. more
Author
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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