A Manual of psychological medicine

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J. & A. Churchill, 1879 - 815 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 238 - Moral insanity, or madness consisting in a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, temper, habits, moral dispositions, and natural impulses, without any remarkable disorder or defect of the intellect or knowing and reasoning faculties, and particularly without any insane illusion or hallucination.
Pàgina 12 - Ji. is a lunatic (or an idiot, or a person of unsound mind), and a proper Person to be taken charge of and detained under Care and Treatment, and that I have formed this opinion upon the following grounds, viz.
Pàgina 15 - For they do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but, having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Pàgina 21 - A lunatic is indeed properly one that hath lucid intervals ; sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not, and that frequently depending upon the change of the moon.
Pàgina 409 - Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do. And the reason why they are not so punished and cured is, that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too.
Pàgina 473 - ... ingenuity of the bar, and all the authority of the Court, could not make him say a single syllable upon that topic, which had put an end to the indictment before, although he still had the same indelible impression upon his mind, as he signified to those who were near him ; but, conscious that the delusion had occasioned his defeat at Westminster, he obstinately persisted in holding it back.
Pàgina 266 - An insane person is one who, at the time of committing the act, labored under such a defect of reason as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it, did not know he was doing what was wrong...
Pàgina 409 - Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and everything about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
Pàgina 23 - By a perfect interval, I do not mean a cooler moment, an abatement of pain or violence, or of a higher state of torture, — a mind relieved from excessive pressure; but an interval in which the mind, having thrown off the disease, had recovered its general habit.
Pàgina 180 - Esquirol, - that it appears to me to be the proper characteristic of mental derangement.' There are madmen in whom it is difficult to discover any trace of hallucination, but there are none in whom the passions and moral affections are not disordered, perverted, or destroyed. I have in this particular met with no exceptions.

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