title: Max Scheler's influence on Kurt Schneider.
abstract: Kurt Schneider (1887-1967) met Max Scheler (1874-1928) in 1919 when he enrolled in the latter's philosophy seminars at the University of Cologne. Kurt Schneider was then a junior psychiatrist and Max Scheler a renowned philosophy professor and co-founder of the phenomenological movement in philosophy. We uncover the facts about their intellectual and personal relationship, summarize the main articles and books that they wrote and consider whether Max Scheler did influence the young Kurt Schneider. We conclude that Scheler's philosophy of emotion impressed Schneider, and that the latter's notion of 'vital depression' as the core element in melancholia was essentially applied Schelerian philosophy. Schneider's more celebrated contributions to psychiatry - his notion of first rank symptoms of schizophrenia - owed nothing to Scheler or any other philosopher.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK jccutting@outlook.com.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cutting
authors.affiliation: University of Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mouratidou
authors.affiliation: University of Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fuchs
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
authors.forename: Gareth
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Owen
mesh_terms: D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000266:history; D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations / Q000266:history*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000266:history; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history*; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000266:history
keywords: Depressive illness; Kurt Schneider; Max Scheler; personality disorder; psychopathology; schizophrenia