"This time the reviewer is proud and pleased to agree with Kraepelin's latest nosology, since it is his own"

Fortschritte der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
H Steinberg

Abstract

This paper aims to acknowledge the major impact Leipzig neurologist and psychiatrist Paul Julius Möbius had on the classification of nervous and mental illnesses. His main objective was to differentiate them by their underlying cause. Between 1890 and 1893 he sampled his views for both subjects. Expanding Evariste Marandon de Montyel's ideas of 1889 Möbius not only agreed that illnesses can emerge from causes that lie mainly within the body as well as mainly outside it, he even went as far as to say that there were illnesses that are solely based on causes outside the body. Moreover, it was Möbius who first introduced the terms "endogenous" and "exogenous" diseases. In accordance with the degeneration theory of his time he referred to transmission as the only etiological factor for endogenous illnesses, proposing that the extent of the illness is determined by the degree of degeneration. In the case of exogenous illnesses, however, the various stimuli affecting the nervous system would lead to qualitatively different illnesses. It is mainly due to Emil Kraepelin, who took over Möbius's dichotomy in the fifth edition of his most influential textbook of psychiatry of 1896, that his views had a lasting influence. And as it shown i...Continue Reading

Citations

Mar 25, 2011·Brain : a Journal of Neurology·Holger Steinberg
Jul 2, 2015·Australasian Psychiatry : Bulletin of Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists·Holger Steinberg
Dec 23, 2015·International Journal of Molecular Sciences·Holger SteinbergHubertus Himmerich

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