Emil Kraepelin and the origins of American psychiatric diagnosis

Allan Young

pp. 175-181

in: Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau (eds), Anthropologies of medicine, Wiesbaden, Vieweg+Teubner, 1991

Abstract

Like every clinical science, psychiatry has a linguistic jumping off place, a bedrock of basic words and meanings that no longer attract scrutiny. It is on this foundation that writers, researchers, and clinicians build their routines and reputations.

Cited authors

Kraepelin Emil