Book, Manic-Depressive Madness, The 1/12[LS]

For Kraepelin, psychosis presents some fundamental characteristics. Firstly, the delusion of reference, then the illusions of memory, which lead to forms of delusion of persecution, of grandeur in which prophecy, inventions, world reforms will figure, in addition to erotomania and querulence.. There is a particularity in manic-depressive madness: it brings together, in addition to all manic and depressive states, all acute states. States that are not confusional or constitute syndromes of early dementia. Kraepelin does not accept the existence of simple melancholy. For him, relapses are always observed.