KNOW THE LEGENDS - PART - 1

TOPIC - MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

Emil Kraepelin

👉German psychiatrist, one of the most influential of his time

👉 Gave clinical description of "demention praecox" now known as schizophrenia

👉 Gave clinical description of manic depressive psychosis now known as bipolar disorder

👉 He classified mental illness in to hebephrenic, catatonic, and paranoid types

👉 His influential textbook" psychiatrie"

👉Identifies him as the founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology & psychiatric genetics.

Paul Eugen Bleuler (1857 - 1939)

👉 Coined the term schizophrenia

👉 He described simple schizophrenia

👉 Introduced the concept of "autism"

👉 Influential textbook" Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias"

👉Bleuler is credited with the introduction of two concepts fundamental to the analysis of schizophrenia autism denoting the loss of contact with reality, frequently through indulgence in bizarre fantasy.

👉Bleuler was an early proponent of the theories of Sigmund Freud, and he attempted to show how the various mechanisms Freud had found in neurotic patients could also be recognized in psychotic patients.

Sigismund Schlomo Freud

👉Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche

👉Father of psychoanalysis

👉 Frued believed that unconscious thoughts, feelings and memories influence behavior

👉 He proposed the ID,EGO,SUPER EGO as the three parts of the human personality

👉 He identified various defense mechanisms repression, denial and projection

👉Developed theory of psychosexual development

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