1. One Illness, Scores of Symptoms, Can it be simplified?
Kraepelin grouped mental diseases that were previously considered unrelated under the term dementia praecox. ... For instance Bleuler in 1908 claimed the disease was an organic brain deterioration and thus incurable and introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia praecox (Phillips & Ketelsen, 2003). ...
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