[The Münchner Klinik and Psychiatric Diagnosis (author's transl)].

The proposals for the classification of psychiatric disorders made at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich reflect the development of psychiatric nosology during this century. Kraepelin modified self-critically his classification several times and was attacked by his successor Bumke, who proposed a descriptive "Syndromlehre" but later initiated a period of acceptance of the concept of disease entities lasting until the beginning of the seventies, when the concept of multiaxial classifications came into wider discussion.