In an article of 1920 entitled "Die Erscheinungsformen des Irreseins," published in Kraepelin's phase of theoretical maturity, this great German scholar presented a re-reading of his thinking on psychopathology, considering that clinical manifestations of mental diseases are never direct expressions of underlying pathogenic processes. Manifestations depend on a complex interaction with the subject in his or her history during which changes have been installed and inscribed.
Kraepelin; psychopathology; mental disease; pathological processes