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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 2, 411-412, February 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

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PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. TWO WORLDS – TWO MINDS – TWO HEMISPHERES

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Professor Michael Trimble

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK

In times past, psychopathologists were neuropathologists and vice versa. Understanding of the brain and its diseases was one way of understanding the mind and its alterations; this required a dual attention to the scientific principles of both disciplines, and a dual expertise. Over time, an enthusiasm for neuropathology as an underpinning for understanding psychopathology waned, and psychopathologists concerned themselves more and more with elaborate descriptions of mental states gleaned from an examination of a smaller and smaller number of patients. This reached a pinnacle with the attempts of psychoanalysis to develop an entirely new psychopathological understanding, in the end entirely divorced from any following of neuropathology.

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