PSYC 4039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Animal Magnetism, Treatment As Prevention, Heredity
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Emil kraepelin (1856-1926: clinical/ descriptive method, first biological psychiatry (focus on neuroanatomy) ended because it failed to explain most mental illness and people lost interest. Shorter implies kraepelin brought it to an end. Not really true, although he had little interest in anatomic approach he was a strong advocate of somatogenic approach. Doesn"t end biological psychiatry but shows a new way to look at mental illness. Instead of taking the clinical- pathological approach of his contemporaries he turned to clinical observation and classification: his life: Wrote textbook of psychiatry at age 27 (1883) 1922 retired as head of the research institute of psychiatry in munich. He had an eye problem so he couldn"t use a microscope; had a long standing interest in psychology. Life- history approach not common at the time, now psychiatrists take this for granted. Basically just the life history of his patients to discover why they were suffering from mental illness.
