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1: Hist Psychiatry. 1995 Jun;6(22 Pt 2):177-200.Links

Psychosis: from mental disorder to disease concept.

Beer MD.

Department of Psychiatry, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.

This article traces the development of the concept of psychosis from its being coined as a general term for mental disorder in 1845 by the Austrian psychiatrist Ernst von Feuchtersleben until its reification as a disease concept in the twentieth century by the German psychiatrist and pupil of Kraepelin Kurt Schneider.

Personal Name as Subject:
von Feuchtersleben E
Schneider K

PMID: 11639691 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]