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Kurt Schneider was born in 1887 in Crailsheim, Kingdom of Wurttemberg. He went to medical school in Berlin and Tubingen. After serving in World War I, he obtained his postgraduate qualification in psychiatry. In 1931, he became the director of the Psychiatric Research Institute in Munich, previously founded by Kraepelin. He served as an army doctor during World War II and in 1946 took the chair as professor of psychiatry and neurology at the University of Heidelberg, School of Medicine where he became dean. He retired in 1955. Schneider was influenced by Kraepelin and Karl Jaspers who developed the school of “phenomenology.”
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Lake, C.R. (2012). Kurt Schneider (1887–1967): First- and Second- Rank Symptoms, Not Pathognomonic of Schizophrenia, Explained by Psychotic Mood Disorders. In: Schizophrenia Is a Misdiagnosis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1870-2_8
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