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Life-Chart Methodology: a long past and a short history.

Livianos-Aldana L, Rojo-Moreno L

Medicine Department, Valencia Medical School, Hosptital la Fe, Valencia, Spain. lorenzo.livianos@uv.es

OBJECTIVES: Nowadays, the use of the Life-Chart Methodology is common in bipolar disorder clinics. Our aim was to present a chart from the Archives of the University Heidelberg (Germany). METHODS: The clinical case records dating from Emil Kraepelin's direction of the Psychiatric Clinic at Heidelberg were systematically screened. RESULTS: Among the clinical records of patients suffering from manic depressive illness we located one record with a detailed charting of the clinical course. CONCLUSIONS: The chart reviewed shows that the Life-Chart Method was used more than a hundred years ago and for the same purpose, as an aid to clinicians.

Published 17 March 2006 in Bipolar Disord, 8(2): 200-2.
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