Psychiatry Classics
A digital library of foundational texts in psychiatry and mental health
This collection preserves important works in the history of psychiatry, formatted for modern reading. All texts are in the public domain and free to read, cite, and share.
Available Books
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Dementia Praecox and Paraphrenia
A comprehensive clinical description of dementia praecox (now known as schizophrenia) by Emil Kraepelin, one of the founders of modern psychiatry. Translated from the eighth German edition of his Textbook of Psychiatry.
About This Project
Psychiatry Classics aims to make foundational psychiatric literature accessible to students, researchers, clinicians, and anyone interested in the history of mental health. These texts shaped our understanding of mental disorders and continue to provide valuable historical and clinical insights.
Each text includes proper citation information for academic use, with structured metadata following Dublin Core and Schema.org standards for discoverability by search engines and academic databases.