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Lectures on Madness in Its Medical, Legal, and Social Aspects

Lectures on Madness in Its Medical, Legal, and Social Aspects

Sheppard, Edgar

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General World History

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ISBN10: 115056539X
ISBN13: 9781150565397
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.11 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... LECTURE IV. Moral Insanity (so-called). I Have now to direct your attention to a very important form of insanity which, it has been truly said, more than any other has puzzled the psychologist, perplexed the advocate, and disconcerted the divine. It does not appear that, as our psychological and pathological researches are extended, we have any clearer ideas than formerly of that derangement to which Dr. Pritchard gave the unfortunate name of moral insanity--defining it to be a morbid perversion of the natural feelings, affections, inclinations, tempers, 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. Under the term manie sans dSlire, Pinel had previously described a madness involving no intellectual disturbance, the emotional or affective nature alone being implicated. Subsequently, Esquirol, with that love of new nomenclature which is almost a professional disease, introduced the term monomania, making it, in defiance of its significant Greek derivative, to embrace two varieties--instinctive and affective. Modern writers have still further multiplied varieties and terms, the result being that when this technical phraseology is introduced by a medical witness into our law courts, modern judges become alarmed, and hint to him the undesirability of getting into the clouds. Fine feathers, it is thought, make fine birds, and I suppose complex divisions and subdivisions make fine nosologies, and convey to outsiders the idea of great erudition. In whatever shape, however, we may frame our classification, or in whatever words we may think fit to clothe our differential expressions of disease, it is...

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