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Kraepelin's Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch
Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) was unquestionably the founder of modern psychiatry. He was the first to identify schizophrenia and manic-depression, and he pioneered the use of drugs to treat these and other mental illnesses. He was also joint discoverer of Alzheimer’s disease (which he named after his collaborator, Dr Alois Alzheimer). In this, the eighth edition of his textbook, Psychiatrie, Kraepelin established the conceptual framework within which psychiatry was to develop for the rest of the 20th century. He provided an encyclop dic description of the signs of mental disorder, and classified them according to their causes, symptomatology and prognosis. Kraepelin’s categories live on in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by present-day psychiatrists.