Paleophrenia

Paleophrenia is a term used in neuropsychiatry and denotes an "original or primitive mentality suggested by O. Osborne to replace the term schizophrenia and to emphasize the regression to a primitive state of thought often observed in schizophrenics" will.

Carl Antoine Pierson, a French psychopathologist , created his racist theory of paleophrenia based on this to scientifically justify the Algerian war . In 1955, Pierson took over the term paleophrenia from Osbourne to demonstrate a racial tendency towards crime among the Maghrebians ; it thus replaces the term “ primitive ” in scientific literature . His term found its way into standard works.

Frantz Fanon dedicates the chapter on psychopathologies in The Damned of This Earth to paleophrenia, among other things.

See also

• Brain stem

literature

• Antoine Porot et DC, Arrii: An. Méd. psych. Dec. 1932, No. 5.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert Jean Campbell : Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary. 9th edition. Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-19-534159-7
2. ↑ Osborne, RL Paleophrenia: a re-evaluation of the concept of schizophrenia . J. Ment. Sri., 1940, 86, 1078-1086.
3. ^ Timothy Mitchell : Questions of modernity. Contradictions of Modernity Series, Volume 11. University of Minnesota Press , 2000, pp. 149. ISBN 0-8166-3133-6
4. ^ Steven Kaplan : The Routledge Spanish Bilingual Dictionary of Psychology and Psychiatry. Taylor & Francis , 2011. ISBN 1-136-77120-4