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Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis

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Like every clinical science, psychiatry has a linguistic jumping off place, a bedrock of basic words and meanings that no longer attract scrutiny. It is on this foundation that writers, researchers, and clinicians build their routines and reputations.

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Young, A. (1991). Emil Kraepelin and the Origins of American Psychiatric Diagnosis. In: Pfleiderer, B., Bibeau, G. (eds) Anthropologies of Medicine. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-87859-5_13

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