Excerpt from Neurological Lectures and Addresses Symptomatology in any department of medicine is a study of the first im portance, but in mental medicine it at present almost bounds our horizon. To the study of this symptomatology men are urged not only by the needs of the insane but also by the necessities of the sane. If there be one thought more than another which ought not to be forgotten, it is that the human mind diseased is the human mind still. The coming on of insanity marks not the appearance of a new entity or ...
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Excerpt from Neurological Lectures and Addresses Symptomatology in any department of medicine is a study of the first im portance, but in mental medicine it at present almost bounds our horizon. To the study of this symptomatology men are urged not only by the needs of the insane but also by the necessities of the sane. If there be one thought more than another which ought not to be forgotten, it is that the human mind diseased is the human mind still. The coming on of insanity marks not the appearance of a new entity or a new force. The old entity or the old force simply goes astray. It is the failure to grasp this clearly which has lead many a lawyer to say to the expert; You crazy doctors believe that everybody is insane, and has occasionally betrayed the unwary alienist into acknowledging that this assertion is true. I say distinctly that it is not true. Sanity is the condition of the great bulk of mankind, but the impulse, the mood, the failure of judgment, the lack of coherent thought - the various symptoms which constitute the chaos of disturbed intellection find their counterparts, or rather their germs, in every healthy mind. So long as these impulses, moods, etc., can be dominated by the will of the individual, just so long are they simply the weaknesses of humanity but when the will of the individual is powerless before them, then is that individual insane. The pas sage from one state to the other may be so gradual that only to omniscience is it possible to say when the line between sanity and insanity, responsibility and irresponsibility is crossed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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