Arthur Kronfeld's Psychological Approach to Neuropsychiatry: Philosophical Pretensions or Epistemological Perspicacity?
Arthur Kronfeld (1886-1941) was a major representative of the psychological approach to psychiatry during the interwar period. In his major work from 1930, Perspectives on Nervous and Mental Diseases (Perspektiven der Seelenheilkunde), Kronfeld developed a psychological analysis of the structure of intentionality underlying psychotic manifestations. Yet even though some consider Kronfeld to be perhaps the most outstanding theoretician of psychological psychiatry, psychiatrists from the 1930s to the present day have manifested a peculiar reluctance to deal with the concept of intentionality. This article will illustrate Kronfeld's scientific individuality through a survey of some important aspects of his biography, his philosophical background, and his psychiatric work.
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Arthur Kronfeld; German psychiatry; diagnostic psychiatrique; intentionality; intentionnalité; interwar period; phenomenology; phénoménologie; psychiatric diagnosis; psychiatrie allemande; psychopathologie; psychopathology; période de l'entre-deux-guerres; schizophrenia; schizophrénie