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INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF PSYCHIATRY
Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 49-52Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09540260500080534
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Since the time of the ancient Greeks, physicians have recognized a certain relatedness between the mental states of depression and mania. In the mid- Nineteenth century, French alienists proposed a 'double' or 'circular' illness consisting of alternating depressed and manic episodes and at the beginning of the twentieth century, Emil Kraepelin introduced the term 'manic-depressive insanity.' Kraepelin's broad clinical experience resulted in compelling descriptions of the symptoms of mood disorders that have arguably never been surpassed. The Kraepelinian nosology continues to provide a touchstone for modern classification systems of the mood disorders.
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