Emil Kraepelin Facts
Emil Kraepelin Facts
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| Kraeplin was born in Neustrelitz, Germany, where his father was a civil servant. |
| In 1874 he began his medical studies in Leipzig and Wurzburg and received his medical degree in 1878. |
| While at University he wrote a prize-winning essay, "The Influence of Acute Illness in the Causation of Mental Disorders". |
| In 1883 he published his major work Compendium der Psychiatrie arguing that psychiatry was a branch of medicine and should be subject to scientific observation and experimentation like the other sciences. |
| He proposed physical causes for some mental illness and established the beginnings of a modern classification system for mental disorders. |
| In 1886 he became professor of psychiatry at the University of Dorpat and in 1890 became the department head at the University of Heidelberg. |
| In 1903 he was appointed to the post of Professor Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Munich. |
| In 1912 he was asked by the German Society of Psychiatry to establish a center for psychiatric research which opened in 1917. |
| He spoke out against the treatment of patients in psychiatric asylums and the use of prisons instead of hospitals for the insane. |
| Through long term studies, he demonstrated that certain mental illnesses, like schizophrenics were more common in those who had relatives with the same condition. |
| He worked with Alois Alzheimer and together they discovered Alzheimer's disease. |
| Unfortunately his belief that eugenics and racial hygiene were necessary to preserve the strength of the German people and his vicious anti-Semitism have over shadowed his work. |
| His theories on the diagnosis of mental illnesses underpins the modern diagnostic systems, especially the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV and the World Health Organization's ICD system. |
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