Article ID: CBB906870406

Tempering Madness: Emil Kraepelin’s Research on Affective Disorders (2016)

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This essay examines some of the research practices and strategies that the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856–1926) deployed in his efforts to account for the significance of emotions in psychiatric illnesses. After briefly surveying Kraepelin’s understanding of emotions and providing some historical context for his work in the late nineteenth century, it examines three different approaches that he took to studying emotions. First, it discusses his work in experimental psychology and his use of so-called artificial insanity to study affective disorders. It then turns to his clinical research, exploring his particular interest in the course and outcome of psychiatric disorders and then showing how those concerns related to his nosological delineation of manic depressive illness. Finally, it considers briefly how he attempted to expand his “clinical gaze,” turning it outward onto larger, nonhospitalized populations in an attempt to study subclinical forms of affect or temperaments. The article argues that the inadequacies and limitations of his own experimental and clinical research practices contributed to his evolving understanding of affective disorders. In particular, they led him to expand and differentiate his understanding of manic-depressive illness so as to take greater account of premorbid symptoms or temperaments.

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Article Otniel E. Dror; Bettina Hitzer; Anja Laukötter; Pilar León-Sanz (2016) An Introduction to History of Science and the Emotions. Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 1-18). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Morgese, Giorgia
De Pascalis, Vilfredo
Valeriano, Annacarla
Keuck, Lara
Wu, Y.-C.
Han, Alysia Young
Concepts
Psychiatry
Clinical psychology
Mental disorders and diseases
Experimental psychology
Psychology
Emotions; passions
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
Early modern
18th century
Places
United States
Germany
Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Leipzig (Germany)
Japan
Italy
Institutions
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
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