Kurt Schneider
Kurt Schneider ( born January 7, 1887 in Crailsheim, † October 27, 1967 in Heidelberg ) was a German psychiatrist. Schneider is considered one of the most important and internationally important German researchers in psychopathology. His principal work is the "Clinical Psychopathology ". She appeared in 2007, in 120th year of his birth in the 15th edition.
Life's work
Schneider was known primarily for distinguishing the symptoms 1st and 2nd Ranges of schizophrenia. His works are considered as the basis for the research groups that the currently valid diagnostic systems (ICD and DSM) worked out in the 1970s. He shared the mental disorders in five groups:
- Psychopathic personalities
- Abnormal psychic reactions
- Imbeciles and their psychoses
- Physically justifiable psychosis
- Cyclothymia and schizophrenia
However, his disease classification in the strict sense includes only two groups of diseases:
- I. Abnormal varieties psychic being ( Abnormal understanding systems, personalities and experience reactions)
- II Mentally abnormal as a result of disease ( somatological or etiological order and psychychologische or symptomatological order )
The second group he counted schizophrenia and cyclothymia whose hypothetical somatological basis but so far can only be postulated.
Life
Kurt Schneider, son of the Ulm District Court President Paul Schneider (1855-1918) and the minister's daughter Julie Mathilde Weitbrecht (* 1860), studied medicine and philosophy in Tübingen, where he in 1912 for Dr. med. doctorate. As a senior physician at Gustav Aschaffenburg in Cologne he could habilitate 1919 and 1921 even the PhD. purchase. In 1922 he became associate professor and in 1931 in Munich chief physician at the Schwabing Hospital and Walther Spielmeyer head of the clinical department of the "German Research Institute for Psychiatry (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute ) ", now the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry. After the death of his predecessor, John Long, he was appointed to the Chair of Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Breslau, he, turned down after an interview in Wroclaw, without negotiating with the city or the Institute. Most recently, he was from 1946 to 1955 Professor and Director of the Psychiatric University Hospital in Heidelberg, where he spent his twilight years and is buried.
At the crime in psychiatry ( T4 ) in the Nazi era was Kurt Schneider (not to be confused with Carl Schneider) not actively involved.