2005/02/01 by Francis M. Mondimore · 31 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Art #Bipolar disorder #Dementia praecox #Depression (economics) #Greeks #Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices #History #Insanity #Mania #Manic depressive #Mental Health and Psychiatry #Mood #Nosology #Perspective (graphical) #Psychiatry #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications #Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming)
paper · doi:10.1080/09540260500080534
published in International Review of Psychiatry 17(1), 49-52 (Taylor & Francis)
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, physicians have recognized a certain relatedness between the mental states of depression and mania. In the mid-Nineteenth century, French alienists proposed a 'double' or 'circular' illness consisting of alternating depressed and manic episodes and at the beginning of the twentieth century, Emil Kraepelin introduced the term 'manic-depressive insanity.' Kraepelin's broad clinical experience resulted in compelling descriptions of the symptoms of mood disorders that have arguably never been surpassed. The Kraepelinian nosology continues to provide a touchstone for modern classification systems of the mood disorders.