From the neo-Kraepelinian framework to the new mechanical philosophy of psychiatry: regaining common sense.

The authors reflect on the implications of the neo-Kraepelin framework (NKF) for clinical practice and research. He says that the practice of psychiatry in the 18th and 19th centuries produced a rich literature through clinical descriptions. Frameworks produced by researcher Emile Kraepelin and psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud that shaped modern psychiatry are discussed. The repudiation of any theoretical framework of mental illnesses is considered a major theoretical foundation of the NKF.