This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV PSYCHOGNOSIS OF PSYCHOPATHIC CASES IT is by no means a matter of chance that one patient should be a psychosomatic while another is a psychoneurotic. This is found, by a psychogenetic examination of the conscious, and especially of the subconscious mind, to depend on the character, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV PSYCHOGNOSIS OF PSYCHOPATHIC CASES IT is by no means a matter of chance that one patient should be a psychosomatic while another is a psychoneurotic. This is found, by a psychogenetic examination of the conscious, and especially of the subconscious mind, to depend on the character, temperament, and the whole training of the patient, as well as on the nature of the event that has aroused the slumbering fear instinct. Patients of an introspective turn of mind, with their attention directed to mental and social accomplishments, early trained in the rigid school of religion, morals, and overrefined social traditions, sensitive to any deviations from the "categorical imperatives,"--the commandments given by the divine trinity of religion, morality, and society, as taught in the nursery, the Sunday school, and the market-place, --such patients, when subjected to experiences that touch their sensibilities, setting the primitive fear instinct to work, are confirmed psychoneurotics. Patients who are not mentally introspective, but have their attentions and fears turned to their physical needs and bodily functions, such patients are naturally psychosomatics. From our present vantage-ground we can clearly realize why certain experiences become subconscious or dissociated and "present subconsciously," as the clinical psychopathologist is apt to put it. Fear more than any other emotion brings about the factors favorable for the production of subconscious states, limitation of voluntary movements, limitation of the field of consciousness, monotony, and inhibition. We know what a paralyzing effect on all the functions of the body and of the mind fear has. The man stricken by the fear instinct remains immovable, and his mind is a blank. All...
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