... used today. Kraepelin grouped mental diseases that were previously considered unrelated under the term dementia praecox. The distinction between "fundamental" and "accessory" symptoms were subsequently recognised (Phillips & Ketelsen, 2003). However, a Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler adjusted Kraepelin's theory. For instance Bleuler in 1908 claimed the disease was an organic brain deterioration and thus incurable and introduced the term schizophrenia to replace dementia ... ...

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