[100 years of conflict about schizophrenias]

A systematic concept of a homogeneous group of psychoses, which Eugen Bleuler subsequently termed "Schizophrenia", goes back to Emil Kraepelin initially, in fact it has not existed for more than 100 years. The dynamics inherent in its history show that it is advisable to make allowance for contemporary influences when arriving at conclusions on schizophrenia in our times. The article in question presents a brief review of the origins and the historic development of the concept of schizophrenia, and attempts to set the present-day "neo-kraepelian" re-assessment of schizophrenic disorders in a modifying historic context.