Dementia praecox is a disused psychiatric diagnosis that originally designated a chronic, deteriorating psychotic disorder characterized by rapid cognitive disintegration, usually beginning in the lat
A monograph by Eugen Bleuler on dementia praecox (1911)
Karl Ludwig Kahlbaum (1828–1899)
Emil Kraepelin c. 1920
"Psychiatrists of Europe! Protect your sanctified diagnoses!" A satirizing cartoon by Emil Kraepelin based on a famous contemporary political painting (Below).