E.J. KEMPF M.D.: Bisexual Factors in Curable Schizophrenia *

Source: The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology. 1949 Jul Vol 44(3) 414-419 [According to the Rightslink records of the American Psychological Assocation, this article is now in the Public Domain.]

* Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, May 18, 1948.

Kraepelin, over fifty years ago, gave psychiatry, after a long series of remarkable studies of many psychoses, his famous differentiation of dementia praecox as an incurable, progressively deteriorating, nervous and mental disease, and manic-depressive psychosis as a repetitious, cyclical, autogenously recoverable reaction. Thereafter psychiatry, generally, adopted this concept, particularly for its useful simplification of many legal, administrative, and custodial problems.

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