Abstract
Emil Kraepelin, the eminent German psychiatrist, was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of transcultural psychiatry. In 1904, he published an article entitled "Vergleichende Psychiatrie." Because of its historical importance and because it is written in German and published in a journal not easily accessible, we feel that an English translation of it would be welcomed by the readers of this Review. Kraepelin has been accused of having been a racist; this may have been true. In this paper he attributes differences in the clinical mani festations of Javanese and German psychiatric patients either to as sumed cerebral differences or to race. The German word "Rasse," as he uses it, implies inborn characteristics as well as culture-based personality features.
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