https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82 This Padlet will discuss and present the key figures Emil Kraepelin has contributed to the history of psychology. en-us 2016-11-14 10:33:55 UTC 2019-02-19 23:16:48 UTC hello@padlet.com simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137310788 Brought To Life: History Of Medicine  ]]> 2016-11-14 10:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137310788 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137312670 Kraepelin’s most important innovation was examining and recording mental illness in a large number of patients over many years. He divided mental illness into two categories. The first was ‘manic-depressive psychosis’, which tended to recur at regular intervals. It is now called bipolar disorder. The second was ‘dementia praecox’ (premature dementia), which usually appeared in early adulthood and remained present throughout a person’s life. This is now called schizophrenia . 

]]> 2016-11-14 10:53:35 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137312670 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313371 Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist who is widely considered to be the founder of modern psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He suggested that the primary origin of psychiatric disease was related to biological and genetic malfunction. Kraepelin also devised a classification system for mental illness that helped shape later classifications]]> 2016-11-14 10:57:38 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313371 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313497 He held the belief that biological and genetic disorders cause psychiatric illnesses. He vocally rejected the conflicting approach of Sigmund Freud, who considered and treated mental disorders as secondary to psychological factors. Kraepelin viewed Freud’s psychoanalysis as impractical and unscientific]]> 2016-11-14 10:58:29 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313497 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313684 Kraepelin’s fundamental concepts on the etiology and diagnosis of psychiatric disorders laid the groundwork for every major diagnostic system of today]]> 2016-11-14 10:59:22 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313684 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313908 2016-11-14 11:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137313908 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137314192 identifying patterns of symptoms. Kraepelin’s work is at the foundation of all diagnostic measures used in psychology today]]> 2016-11-14 11:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137314192 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137315943 2016-11-14 11:13:28 UTC https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137315943 simmondsshelley https://padlet.com/simmondsshelley/djzrjqobzu82/wish/137316595

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