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Discussing psychiatry in Europe, he writes about the famous Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926): "Kraepelin's fame rested on his distinction between dementia praecox [today termed schizophrenia], which he deemed the result of external causes (traumas) and possibly treatable through psychological techniques, on the one hand, and hereditary and incurable diseases of the brain, on the other" (p. Since then, the term schizophrenia (or "fragmented mind," in one translation from the German) has replaced dementia praecox as the favored term for the devastating ailment. |
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