History and the nature of diagnosis. The example of schizophrenia and Kraepelin’s recant
Published online on December 11, 2025
Abstract
Australasian Psychiatry, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 114-117, April 2026.
ObjectiveTo examine psychiatry’s cardinal diagnoses as historical concepts that reflect the time and place of their origins not their factual status. Schizophrenia is the exemplar. Kraepelin on dementia praecox and Bleuler and Schneider on schizophrenias ...
ObjectiveTo examine psychiatry’s cardinal diagnoses as historical concepts that reflect the time and place of their origins not their factual status. Schizophrenia is the exemplar. Kraepelin on dementia praecox and Bleuler and Schneider on schizophrenias ...