[Discovery of the "deep personality" and revision of the Kraepelin concept of autonomic mental disease].

It is necessary to make a revision of the conception of Kraepelin about schizophrenia and autonomic mental disease. The aim of Kraepelin was to discover an autonomic mental disease like the general paralysis: that was the dementia praecox. It is now impossible to prove this conception. The schizophrenia of Bleuler is characterized by psychic dissociation. Before Bleuler, Moreau de Tours described psychic dissociation not as a mental disease but as a reaction to toxic causes. The new researches about catatonia pointed the exactitude of Moreau de Tours's conception. Behind the apparent dissociation persist a personality that is still living and which it is possible to help and to treat with etiologic treatments and with moral comprehension.