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 now available from Thoemmes Press). Much of this gigantic textbook can only be read in the original German; but parts of it ...
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Description: Like new. 185506975X. Translation by R. Mary Barclay of the section on Depression in the eighth edition of Kraepelin's Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie. Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English [edited by John Gach] Volume 5. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, [2002]. Facsimile reprint Edition. [First issued in English translation in 1921 in Edinburgh. ] [2]+[xvi]+280+[2]pp. 48 text figues (a number being nicely reproduced color charts). Green cloth with painted gilt-stamped maroon spine labels. Brand new. A ... read more
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