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Paradoxes Of Us Psychopharmacology Practice In 2013: Undertreatment Of Severe Mental Illness And Overtreatment Of Minor Psychiatric Problems, Jose De Leon
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One Hundred Years Of Limited Impact Of Jaspers’ General Psychopathology On Us Psychiatry, Jose De Leon
One Hundred Years Of Limited Impact Of Jaspers’ General Psychopathology On Us Psychiatry, Jose De Leon
Psychiatry Faculty Publications
Jaspers, a German psychiatrist, published General Psychopathology in 1913. Jaspers, Schneider, and Mayer-Gross were members of the Heidelberg school. General Psychopathology, indirectly through Schneider’s and Mayer-Gross’ textbooks and directly by its English translation in 1963, led to a narrow set of schizophrenia criteria in the United Kingdom. General Psychopathology had very limited direct impact on US psychiatry, which adopted a broader schizophrenia definition. The difference between UK and US schizophrenia was a key element in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition, and the neo-Kraepelinian revolution. General Psychopathology contains two essential interrelated ideas: a) psychiatry is …