Abstract
Eight editions of Kraepelin's textbook of psychiatry have been published in Leipzig between 1883 and 1915. A 9th edition (incomplete) has been edited after his death (1927). The first truly original edition is the 4th (1893), in which appears the term dementia praecox. The 5th (1896) jumps over the step between a symptomatic and/or aetiological approach to a clinical/evolutive one of mental disorders. The 6th (1899), the most diffused, systematizes the definition, the description and the boundaries of psychotic disorders. The 8th (1909–1915), the most voluminous one, tries to integrate Bleuler's clinical contribution on schizophrenia (1911) and French reactions to previous editions. The basic ideas underlying Kraepelin's theoretical approach include the following concepts: Realism, psychophysical parallelism (monism), experimentation, statistics, naturalism, evolutionary approach. In 1920, he also tried to integrate a phenomenological approach.
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