biography
pronunciation:
[kraypelin]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1856–1926)
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| biography:
| Psychiatrist, born in Neustrelitz, NE Germany. He studied at Würzburg, and did further study under Wundt, whose techniques he later used for research on the effects of alcohol. Professor at Dorpat, Heidelberg, and Munich, he was a pioneer in the psychological study of serious mental diseases (psychoses), which he divided into two groups, manic-depressive and dementia praecox. He compiled a classification of disorders Compendium der Psychiatrie (1883, Compendium of Psychiatry), which he continued to revise throughout his life, and which was very influential at the beginning of the 20th-c. |
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