Philosophy The Invention of Mental Illness The Light and Darkness of Kraepelin

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Philosophy
kodansha Senshu Methye / Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926), who was the first to classify and systematize diseases of the mind that are not visible unlike organs and invented the "mental disorder". Born in the same year as Freud who discovered the unconsciousness, he laid the foundation of modern psychiatry along with Freud, but his name is forgotten. Only the classification and system that he built, as if given, is the foundation of a diagnostic manual widely used around the world. He traces the half life of a complicated person who is ruthless but also pure and passionate, and depicts the merits and demerits of the system created by repeated conflicts and anguish. The secret history of the birth of psychiatry!