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Psychopathic Personalities: Kurt Schneider

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kevin Standage
Kevin Standage*
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Dalhousie University, Victoria General Hospital, 1278 Tower Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 2Y9
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The first edition of Psychopathic Personalities appeared in 1912, roughly ten years after Jaspers' General Psychopathology and the last edition of Kraepelin's Textbook of Psychiatry. Schneider's role in applying Jaspers' method of psychopathological study to Kraepelin's classification of psychiatric disorder has been seen as an important aspect of his work (Hoenig, 1982) and is evident in his own Clinical Psychopathology (Schneider, 1959). However, his study of the classification of psychopathic personalities, an area which Kraepelin never succeeded in delineating clearly (Lewis, 1974), is regarded as his most important contribution (Anderson, 1959; Hoenig, 1982).

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Books Reconsidered
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 2 , August 1989 , pp. 271 - 273
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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