Life-Chart Methodology: a long past and a short history.
OBJECTIVE
Nowadays, the use of the Life-Chart Methodology is common in bipolar disorder clinics. Our aim was to present a chart from the Archives of the University Heidelberg (Germany).


METHODS
The clinical case records dating from Emil Kraepelin's direction of the Psychiatric Clinic at Heidelberg were systematically screened.


RESULTS
Among the clinical records of patients suffering from manic depressive illness we located one record with a detailed charting of the clinical course.


CONCLUSIONS
The chart reviewed shows that the Life-Chart Method was used more than a hundred years ago and for the same purpose, as an aid to clinicians.
Livianos-Aldana
Lorenzo
L
Medicine Department, Valencia Medical School, Hosptital la Fe, Valencia, Spain. lorenzo.livianos@uv.es
Rojo-Moreno
Luis
L
D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods