About this title: The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) is justly called "the father of modern psychiatry". He was the first to identify schizophrenia and manic-depression, and he pioneered the use of drugs to treat mental illness. He was also joint discoverer of Alzheimer's disease (which he named after his collaborator, Dr Alois Alzheimer). Kraepelin presented these and other discoveries in successive editions of his "Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch" (definitive 8th edition also available from Thoemmes Press). Much of this gigantic textbook can only be read in the original German; but parts of it were ...
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Description: Like new. 1855069695. Volume 1: Lectures on Clinical Psychiatry (Translation of the 1904 2nd edition of Einfuhrung in die psychiatrischen Klinik); Volume 2: Clinical Psychiatry: A Text-Book for Students and Physicians Abstracted and Adapted from the Seventh German Edition of Kraepelin's "Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie" by A[llen] Ross Diefendorf; Volume 3: General Paresis (translation of the section on syphilitic insanity); Volume 4: Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia (reprint of the original Edinburgh ... read more
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