As I announced in my penultimate post on the "old new disease" cyclothymia what I propose to share with you excerpts from doctoral thesis published by Dr. Peter Kahn G. Steinheil in 1909. to restore the truth about its history and cyclothymia.
This work shows that some doctors French researchers at the time knew exactly what cyclothymia and that contrary to popular belief medicine can sometimes regress ... This is what we see now regretting the virtual absence of experts and good diagnostics cyclotymie and bipolarity attenuated.
Dr. Kahn of the Salpetriere hospital pays tribute to the true discoverers of cyclothymia, German psychiatrists Kahlbaum Hecker and at the end of XIX century. The title that appears on the cover of the book entitled: The Cyclothymia
Forming cyclothymic and its manifestations
(Depression and intermittent stimulation).
Gaston Deny, the master of Peter Kahn, wrote the preface in which he writes: "the existence of a special constitutional psychopathic bedrock for all these pseudo-entities, predating their emergence to their disappearance and surviving that's the important fact that was definitely highlighted by the latest summary of Professor Kräpelin (...). This constitution is psychopathic designated today as cyclothymia
(...). A little further It adds:
"cyclothymic constitution is essentially characterized in terms of clinical variations and continuous oscillations of affective tone or mood which are expressed by a sense of well-being or malaise, which reacts and sounds turn on all modes of psychic activity.
These oscillations of mood are themselves s pertaining to an emotional and exaggerated impressionability whose root cause not to be sought elsewhere than in a state of imbalance, congenital impaired emotional and physical and moral sensitivity. This state of imbalance that puts emotional topic to thank you of every event, the incident as trivial, may be increased or activated by various physical or moral influences, infectious or toxic (...)".
In his introduction, Pierre Kahn rightly reminds us:
"This constitution, the most often hereditary, is characterized by intermittent attacks or circular débuetent generally at an early age.
Seizures in the same patient can be severe enough to make a real psychosis, cleared enough to go unnoticed and be regarded as mere quirks of humor.
Whatever their degree, they offer the character Joint disorders in the affective sphere constant and integrity of consciousness.
In their degree mitigated these forms were often taken for neurasthenia or hysteria (...)".
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