The History of Personality Disorders
Poetically into the eighteenth century, the only types of mentally ill illness - then collectively known as “delirium” or “mania” - were despair (low), psychoses, and delusions. At the origin of the nineteenth century, the French psychiatrist Pinel coined the maxim “manie sans delire” (imbecility without delusions). He described patients who lacked impulse supervise, instances […]