Classification of Mental Disorders
Classification of Mental Disorders
PSY/310
May 1, 2013
Susan Stumph, Ph.D.
Abstract
The discussion of this paper will be on Kraepelin’s early development classifying system for mental disorders. The subjects will be the advantages, and the disadvantages of classifying mental disorders into types and maintaining such taxonomy for clinical reference. It will also describe the modern classification system and what current events are happening regarding this system. This paper will give a better understanding of how mental disorders were classified, and maintained from early times to modern day.
Classification of Mental Disorders
In the early seventeenth century society was faced to deal with individuals whose thought processes, emotions, and behavior were deemed as deviant. With little knowledge of metal illnesses during that century, society’s only thought on why individuals behaved the way they did was because he or she were evil or possessed; thus the only way to deal with it was by torture, locked in cells, or put to death. It was not until many trials and errors with mental illness that in 1883 Emil Kraepelin wrote a textbook that was a classification scheme for illness, which went through nine editions, the last one appeared after his death (Goodwin, 2008, p. 407). Through Kraepelin’s classification system he could identify thirteen categories of mental diseases in 1899 that ranged from mild with promising prognosis, to the more serious disorders.
Kraepelin’s Early Development of a Classification System.
Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist who researched the connections between the brain biology and mental illness. He was the founder of psychopharmacology, which was the study of the effects of psychiatric drugs on the nervous system. He studied medicine and experimental psychology in Leipzig, where he later adapted the technique of early psychological laborites that would study the effects of substances; such as alcohol, morphine, and
PSY/310
May 1, 2013
Susan Stumph, Ph.D.
Abstract
The discussion of this paper will be on Kraepelin’s early development classifying system for mental disorders. The subjects will be the advantages, and the disadvantages of classifying mental disorders into types and maintaining such taxonomy for clinical reference. It will also describe the modern classification system and what current events are happening regarding this system. This paper will give a better understanding of how mental disorders were classified, and maintained from early times to modern day.
Classification of Mental Disorders
In the early seventeenth century society was faced to deal with individuals whose thought processes, emotions, and behavior were deemed as deviant. With little knowledge of metal illnesses during that century, society’s only thought on why individuals behaved the way they did was because he or she were evil or possessed; thus the only way to deal with it was by torture, locked in cells, or put to death. It was not until many trials and errors with mental illness that in 1883 Emil Kraepelin wrote a textbook that was a classification scheme for illness, which went through nine editions, the last one appeared after his death (Goodwin, 2008, p. 407). Through Kraepelin’s classification system he could identify thirteen categories of mental diseases in 1899 that ranged from mild with promising prognosis, to the more serious disorders.
Kraepelin’s Early Development of a Classification System.
Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist who researched the connections between the brain biology and mental illness. He was the founder of psychopharmacology, which was the study of the effects of psychiatric drugs on the nervous system. He studied medicine and experimental psychology in Leipzig, where he later adapted the technique of early psychological laborites that would study the effects of substances; such as alcohol, morphine, and
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