mental illness Archives - British Society for the History of Medicine https://bshm.org.uk/tag/mental-illness/ Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:36:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Emil Kraepelin, the little known guru of British psychiatry https://bshm.org.uk/emil-kraepelin-the-little-known-guru-of-british-psychiatry/ https://bshm.org.uk/emil-kraepelin-the-little-known-guru-of-british-psychiatry/#respond Mon, 20 Jan 2025 15:36:46 +0000 https://bshm.org.uk/?p=19612 Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) is one of the psychiatrists who have shaped world psychiatry. His views have had more lasting influence on psychiatry than Freud, yet he is little known by the public, explains Peter Carpenter.  Kraepelin arguably is the most significant figure in the development of the ideas of British psychiatry. The impending centenary of […]

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