The physician who wrote an influential textbook on psychiatry in 1883, in which he likened mental disorders to physical diseases, was ______.
A) Joseph Lister
B) Robert Koch
C) Emil Kraepelin
D) G. A. Hansen

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Emil Kraepelin wrote the influential textbook "Compendium der Psychiatrie" in 1883, in which he proposed a classification system for mental disorders based on biological and medical principles. He is often considered the father of modern scientific psychiatry. The other three options listed are notable in the field of medicine, but did not make significant contributions to the understanding of mental disorders in the same way as Kraepelin.

The Physician Who Wrote an Influential Textbook on Psychiatry in 1883