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Psychosis: from mental disorder to disease concept.
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.
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von Feuchtersleben E
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Schneider K
PMID: 11639691 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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