Janusz Rybakowski: 120 years of the Kraepelinian dichotomy of "endogenous psychoses" in historical perspective

Hans-Juergen Möller’s reply to Hector Warnes comment

        I read Hector Warnes` excellent  comment on my paper with the subtitle  "Kraepelin’s dichotomy and beyond" carefully and with great interest. I have the impression that Warnes summarizes well my position. I especially like his suggestion that we cannot call the endogenous psychoses functional psychoses anymore but have to interpret them as a kind of organic psychoses.

        Principally I see like many others the limitations of the dichotomy but learned that even the DSM-5 related activities did finally  not dare to finish with this  tradition, from my viewpoint for good theoretical and pragmatic reasons (Möller, Bandelow, Bauer et al. 2015).

Reference:

Möller HJ, Bandelow B, Bauer M, Hampel H, Herpertz SC, Soyka M, Barnikol UB, Lista S, Severus E, Maier W.  DSM-5 reviewed from different angles: goal attainment, rationality, use of evidence, consequences—part 2: bipolar disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorders, trauma- and stressor-related disorders, personality disorders, substance-related and addictive disorders, neurocognitive disorders. Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2015 Mar;265(2):87-106.

August 13, 2020