title: How Kraepelinian was Kraepelin? How Kraepelinian are the neo-Kraepelinians?--from Emil Kraepelin to DSM-III.
abstract: The contents of the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) can only be understood by studying aspects of the last one hundred years of psychiatric history. This paper deals with: (1) three aspects of Kraepelinian psychiatry--descriptive psychiatry, Kraepelin's devotion to empirical research and his inability always to carry it through, and his anti-psychoanalytic stance; (2) the optimistic yet troubled state of American psychiatry in the period 1946 to 1974; (3) the work of the so-called 'neo-Kraepelinians', especially that of Eli Robins, Samuel Guze and George Winokur; and (4) Robert Spitzer and the making of DSM-III.
authors.affiliation: Department of History, University of Houston, Texas 77204-3003, USA. hsdecker@uh.edu
authors.forename: Hannah S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Decker
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000266:history; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013782:Textbooks as Topic; D014481:United States