Talk:Karl Kleist

Kleist's views on schizophrenia

Karl Kleist was one of nature's "splitters," whom the natural sciences need to balance the efforts of the "lumpers" such as Emile Kraepelin.

The Anglo-American orthodoxy enshrined in neo-Kraepelinian texts such as the ICD and DSM and most English-language journals, and embodied in the Wikipedia article on schizophrenia, ignores the contributions of the Wernicke-Kleist-Leonhard school to nosology and psychopathology.

It would be best if someone able to understand the German sources were to add a summary of Kleist's views on thought disorder, dysphasia and mental illness. Failing that, it would be good to have a precis of Frank Fish's summary: Fish FJ (1957) "The Classification of Schizophrenia. The views of Kleist and his co-workers" Journal of Mental Science (103) 443 - 463. NRPanikker (talk) 22:21, 17 December 2008 (UTC) NRPanikker (talk) 16:34, 18 December 2008 (UTC)