Open AccessRosenbakh P. Ya. Evaluation of the doctrine of manic-depressive psychosis. "Russian doctor". No. 2. 1908
Author(s) -
Ivan N. Zhilin
Publication year - 1908
Publication title -
nevrologičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2304-3067
pISSN - 1027-4898
DOI - 10.17816/nb96987
Subject(s) - confusion , oppression , doctrine , dementia , psychology , manic depressive , scope (computer science) , psychiatry , psychosis , disease , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , medicine , law , political science , politics , pathology , computer science , programming language
This article contains a critique of some features of Kraepelin's grouping of psychoses, to whose views the author is generally opposed. The author, for example, proposes to significantly narrow the scope of the forms united in "dementia paracex", leaving for the latter diseases in which "the case begins with extremely variable phenomena - oppression or excitement, fragmentary delusions with deceptions of the senses and mild confusion, and already after a few months from the onset of the disease, a very noticeable dementia is established, firmly seizing the patient.