Talk:Karl Kleist

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Kleist's views on schizophrenia

Karl Kleist was one of nature's "splitters," whom the natural sciences need to balance the efforts of the "lumpers" such as Emile Kraepelin.

The Anglo-American orthodoxy enshrined in neo-Kraepelinian texts such as the ICD and DSM and most English-language journals, and embodied in the Wikipedia article on schizophrenia, ignores the contributions of the Wernicke-Kleist-Leonhard school to nosology and psychopathology.

It would be best if someone able to understand the German sources were to add a summary of Kleist's views on thought disorder, dysphasia and mental illness. Failing that, it would be good to have a precis of Frank Fish's summary: Fish FJ (1957) "The Classification of Schizophrenia. The views of Kleist and his co-workers" Journal of Mental Science (103) 443 - 463. NRPanikker (talk) 22:21, 17 December 2008 (UTC) NRPanikker (talk) 16:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]