Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: catatonia

  • Waking dream

    Jeffrey HauckHouston, Texas, united States I found myself in a grassy field. Lush green below, sapphiric blue above. My mother was with me, and we walked through endless space discussing trivialities that I am sure were important at the time. I turned to her at one point, and she gave me a bizarre look—clearly, something…

  • “Modern psychiatry begins with Kraepelin”

    JMS PearceHull, England “Modern psychiatry begins with Kraepelin”1 The pages of history seen through the retrospectroscope often provide dull facts rather than insights into the personalities and driving forces of its famous subjects. Such is the case of Emil Wilhelm Kraepelin (1856-1926) (Fig 1), a German psychiatrist, widely acknowledged as the founder and pioneer of…