Posted by Squiggles on February 14, 2007, at 12:43:52
In reply to Re: Possible causes of bipolar and its spectrum » Squiggles, posted by Quintal on February 14, 2007, at 12:36:43
> >dementia praecox.
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> Sounds as though you're quoting a very old text there Sqiggles. I haven't heard that term used to describe Schizophrenia for a long time. I've just been looking through my mother's old psychology textbook from the 1940s though, and it seems to be much more clear-sighted and penetrating than the psychology I studied at college.
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> QYup.. "Manic-Depressive Insanity and Paranoia" by Emil Kraepelin, 1856-1926.
dementia praecox = senility and as we know it now Alzheimer's, who was a student of Kraepelin's.
I like this book because it is relatively fresh during a time when scientific disoveries were not under the influence of trends.
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