Anushree jatla (1114310)

1)     The development of a Classification System

Emil Kraepilin contributed to the biological view of abnormal psychology. He emphasized the importance of the brain pathology in the mental disorder thus he was the forerunner of today’s DSM-IV-TR. Underlying his classification was a Herculean task and represented a major contribution to the field of psychopathology. He also saw that each type of mental disorder as distinct from the others and thought that the course of each was a predetermined and predictable as the course of measles. Thus the outcome of a type of disorder could be predicted even if it could not be controlled.