%0 Journal Article
%T The theory of symptom complexes, mind and madness
%A Mauricio V Daker
%J History of Psychiatry
%@ 1740-2360
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0957154X19829671
%X Kahlbaum¡¯s seminal approach to symptom complexes, as opposed to disease entities, is still relevant. Many psychopathologists have approached mental symptom complexes without prejudging them as necessary physical deficits or diseases, favouring a broader dimensional and anthropological view of mental disorders. Discussions of symptom complexes gained prominence in psychiatry in the early twentieth century ¨C through Hoche ¨C and in the period leading up to World War II ¨C through Carl Schneider. Their works, alongside those of Kraepelin, Bumke, Kehrer, Jaspers and others, are reviewed in relation to the theme of symptom complexes, the mind, and mental disorders. A particular feature of symptom complexes is their relationship to aspects of the normal mind and how this affects clinical manifestations. It is further suggested that symptom complexes might offer a useful bridge between the psychic and the biological in theories of the mind
%K Conceptual psychopathology
%K mental symptom complexes
%K mind¨Cbody problem
%K theory of human mind
%K unitary psychosis
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957154X19829671