van Meerbeeck P
Acta Psychiatr Belg. 1982 May-Jun;82(3):243-76.
Described by Kraepelin and Bleuler, dementia praecox and schizophrenia have become the basis of psychiatry. At the XIXth century, this psychosis did not exist. The author attempts through a bibliographical review of the XIXth and XXth century psychiatric tests to delineate the lack of basis for this nosographical concept, which has become a juvenile psychosis evoluing to a dementia because of abusive generalisation of Kraepelin. The use of this bad diagnostic tool had made terrible damage with delusional and hallucinated adolescents and their family (Acta psychiat. belg., 1982, 82, 243-276).
早发性痴呆和精神分裂症由克雷佩林和布鲁勒所描述，已成为精神病学的基础。在19世纪，这种精神病并不存在。作者试图通过对19世纪和20世纪精神病学测试的文献综述，来勾勒出这一疾病分类概念缺乏依据的情况，该概念因克雷佩林的过度概括而成为一种演变成痴呆的青少年精神病。使用这种糟糕的诊断工具给妄想和幻觉的青少年及其家庭造成了巨大伤害（《比利时精神病学学报》，1982年，82卷，243 - 276页）。
