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The Development of the Concept of Reactive Psychoses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Erik Strömgren
Erik Strömgren*
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Institute of Psychiatric Demography, Aarhus Psychiatric Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
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The concept of reactive or psychogenic psychoses has had a peculiar fate. Especially at the beginning of the century, under the influence of the writings of Jaspers (Jaspers, 1913) which included definitions of ‘psychogenic’ and ‘psychoses’, the term ‘psychogenic psychoses’ came into common use in European psychiatry. In Scandinavia, this trend was greatly reinforced by August Wimmer's monograph in 1916 on the subject. In the later editions of Kraepelin's standard textbook, the concept appeared quite frequently, and the same was the case in other leading textbooks, for instance in the Soviet Union and Japan.

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I. Nosological Aspects
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue S4: Psychiatric Diagnosis: Nosological, Biological and Psychological Aspects , May 1989 , pp. 47 - 50
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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