Notable Psychology & Psychiatrists Posters “K...-”
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Notable psychologists and psychiatrists ~

Emil Kraepelin
b. 2-15-1856; Neustrelitz, Prussia
d. 10-7-1826; Munich

Emil Kraepelin, considered the founder of contemporary scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics, believed the origin of psychiatric disease to be biological and genetic malfunction.

Emil Kraepelin quotes ~
• “The patients . . . often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die . . . . One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.”
• “[Sexual excitability] is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behavior, fondness for dress, on the other hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
b. 7-8-1926; Zurich, Switzerland
d. 8-24-2004; Scottsdale, AZ

Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a pioneer in Near-death studies and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969). She proposed Five Stages of Grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – as a pattern of adjustment.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross quotes ~
• “We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That’s what dying patients teach you.”
• “When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls … ”
• “We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.”
• “We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind’s greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.”