Clinical Psychiatry: For Students and Physicians, Abstracted and Adapted from the Seventh German; Edition of Kraepelin's (Classic Reprint)

The motive for this work was to make the teachings of Kraepelin in psychiatry accessible to American medical students and general practitioners, and, at the same time, to provide a full, but concise, text-book, not only for the writers own classes in psychiatry in theM edical Department of Yale University, but as well for other American teachers who follow Kraepelin sviews. Urged by the rapidly increasing interest in Professor Kraepelin steaching during the past five years in this country and the constantly growing number of his disciples, it was the writers first intention to publish a complete translation of the sixth edition of Kraepelin sL ehrbuch derP sychiatric. It was feared, however, that a full translation would be too large to best subserve the function of a texir book, and would have rendered impossible the adaptation of the Kraepelin psychiatry to our peculiar American needs. The classification, terminology, and, wherever possible, the phraseology of this work are Kraepelinian, but the writer has taken the liberty of abbreviating disproportionately the description of some psychoses which are of less importance to the American physician, especially the constitutional psychopathic states and thyroigenous insanity, and of laying more stress upon other more important forms, the description of acquired neurasthenia, traumatic neuroses, also the treatment in epileptic and hysterical insanity and acquired neurasthenia.
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