Over the centuries, mental illnesses have been removing the veil of mystery that enveloped them, many times thanks to medical and psychological advances. Therefore, today we have a multidisciplinary treatment for different mental ailments. In this Psychology-Online article, we will briefly review the History of Psychopathology: the origins of psychopathology in the 19th century.
It is in this century that there is greater refinement and greater conceptual clarity in psychopathology. Griesinger he argues that mental illnesses are illnesses of the brain. Morel argues that mental illnesses would be the expression of a genetic degeneration that would go from neurosis to psychoses, ultimately leading to deficiency.
At the end of the 19th century there was a return to the clinic: Kahlbaum he argues that the various types of mental illnesses are actually symptom complexes that vary with the evolution of the process itself. Kraepelin developed a ranking system on which recent rankings are supported psychiatric: Proposes the creation of systems based on clinical manifestations and not on the assumption of its causes. At the end of the 19th century, alternative psychological theories appeared. The figure of
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