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Life‐Chart Methodology: a long past and a short history
Author(s) -
LivianosAldana Lorenzo,
RojoMoreno Luis
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
bipolar disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.285
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1399-5618
pISSN - 1398-5647
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-5618.2006.00301.x
Subject(s) - chart , bipolar disorder , medical record , psychiatry , psychology , medicine , statistics , mood , surgery , mathematics
Objectives: 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.