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Classic Text No. 72 Non-dementia non-praecox: note on the advantages to mental hygiene of extirpating a term

E.E. Southard

DeSales University

Richard Noll

DeSales University, richard.noll{at}desales.edu

In February 1919 the Harvard neuropathologist Elmer Ernst Southard (1876—1920) presented a paper in which he outlined his reasons for dropping the term `dementia praecox' in favour of a competing diagnostic concept and term, `schizophrenia'. Southard's criticisms reflected the opinion of many US psychiatrists at that time, leading to the replacement of Emil Kraepelin's dementia praecox by Eugen Bleuler's schizophrenia in US psychiatry by the mid-1920s. The text of Southard's lecture is published here for the first time. Also included are excerpts from letters from US psychiatrists George H. Kirby, Albert M. Barrett, Adolf Meyer and August Hoch to Southard in response to his query as to whether dementia praecox or schizophrenia should be adopted in US psychiatric nomenclature.

Key Words: Adolf Meyer • dementia praecox • Elmer Ernst Southard • psychiatric nomenclature • schizophrenia

History of Psychiatry, Vol. 18, No. 4, 483-502 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X07082895
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