In the centuries between the great Greek founders of medicine and psychiatry, Hippocrates, Aretaeus of Cappadocia, Galenos of Pergamon or Soranos of Ephesos (see Longrigg, 1993; Marneros and Angst, 2000; Angst and Marneros, 2001) and the father of the modern psychiatric systematics, Emil Kraepelin, at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, physicians and psychiatr...

These two books dealing with psychotherapy are in sharp contrast. The first, by a P^Iosopher, was written fifty years ago and is a small book, consisting of two .Prions taken from the large volume newly translated from the German under the 'le "General Psychopathology". The second is a contemporary work written by a Poetising psychoanalyst, who is concerned with the description of levels of psy...

Two of Europe's most influential psychopathologists at the start twentieth century (Eugen Bleuler and Karl Jaspers) pointed out fact that patients rarely act according to their delusions. This study proposes an investigation how this issue is addressed in psychopathological literature. article offers a critical review literature which focuses on influence delusional ideation behaviour. Phenomen...