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originally thought I would write a post-kraepelin - but maybe a Kraepelinian dichotomy is better

Post-Kraepelin is a term used to describe those contemporary perspectives of mental health conditions that challenge the traditional views of mental disorders, as a biological illness with a chronic and deteriorating course. These post Kraepelin views are in contrast to the ideas first proposed by Emil Kraepelin in the early twenty century.

Conceptualisation of a mental health conditions as a falling into continuim and with multiple contributing factors Biopsychosocial model, without assuming a undelying biological illness. Recovery and non diagnostic (formulation) approaches that challenge the empirical basis of diagnosis to schizophrenia are beginning to utlise the term.

Traditional ideas about mental disorders
Kraepelin original conceptualist of mental disorders as distinct categories (e.g. Dementia praecox and manic depression) with their own underlying biological disease process. These views have had a major influence on psychiatry, and form the basis of the operational diagnostic criteria, such as DSM.

The concept first gained popularity in 1990s as the validity of diagnosis

Bentall, R. (2006). Madness explained: Why we must reject the Kraepelinian paradigm and replace it with a 'complaint-orientated' approach to understanding mental illness Medical Hypotheses. 66, (2) 220-233.

author=Craddock N, Owen MJ |title=The beginning of the end for the Kraepelinian dichotomy |journal=Br J Psychiatry |volume=186 |issue= |pages=364–6 |year=2005 |month=May |pmid=15863738 |doi=10.1192/bjp.186.5.364 |url=http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15863738}}

Rogler, LH. (1997) Making Sense of Historical Changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: Five Propositions Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 38, No. 1., pp. 9-20.

Pilgrim D. "The biopsychosocial model in Anglo-American psychiatry: Past, present and future" Journal of Mental Health, Volume 11, Issue 6 December 2002, pages 585 - 594 DOI 10.1080/09638230020023930

Bentall, R. P., J. Schaler (2004). Sideshow?: Schizophrenia as construed by Szasz and the neoKraepelinians Under fire: Thomas Szasz replies to his critics. Open Court Publications.

Craddock, N.; Owen, M. J. (2010). "The Kraepelinian dichotomy - going, going... But still not gone". The British Journal of Psychiatry 196: 92-95. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.109.073429.

Also see
Classification of mental disorders

History of mental disorders

Recovery model

Early psychosis