Responsibility in mental disease / by Henry Maudsley.

  • Henry Maudsley
Date:
1899
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Credit: Responsibility in mental disease / by Henry Maudsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. PAGE Insane persons in asylums: how much they resemble and how much they differ from the sane persons—Erroneous popular and legal notions—Feeling of repulsion to- wards insanity—Cruel treatment of the insane: from what causes it originated—Effects of the theological and the metaphysical spirit—Mind a function of brain, and disordered mind a result of disordered brain—Influence of bodily organs on mental function —Physiological method of inquiry indispensable; in- adequacy of psychological method—Development of nervous system by education, and its necessary limits —The tyranny of organization—Hereditary influence —Moral responsibility—The criminal nature—Heredi- tary crime—The production of criminals : their defec- tive physical and mental organization, and proneness to disease—Borderland between insanity and crime- Causes, course, and varieties of intellectual and moral degeneracy to be studied by the inductive method . 1-40 CHAPTER II. THE BORDERLAND. No distinct line of demarcation between sanity and insanity —Continuity in nature—The borderland—The insane temperament—Transformation of nervous diseases- Kinship between insanity and epilepsy, neuralgia,