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Example sentences for "alienist"

Lexicographically close words:
alienates; alienating; alienation; alienations; alienis; alienists; alieno; aliens; alienum; alight
  1. He became a distinguished alienist of the materialist school, and wrote on Moral Faculties from a medical point of view, '36, and many physiological works.

  2. He served as assistant and field doctor in the Dano-Prussian war of '67, and now practises an alienist in Stockholm, where he has established a Positivist Society and Workmen's Institute.

  3. What a good figure Stell would have made in a play: the great alienist who couldn't read a man's mind any better than that!

  4. During the first twenty-four hours the fear of Ascham's alienist dogged him; and as that subsided, it was replaced by the exasperating sense that his avowal had made no impression on the District Attorney.

  5. His fear of Ascham and the alienist made it impossible for him to remain in his rooms.

  6. That is rather a sad case," said the alienist cheerfully.

  7. Carew proved to be a young and enthusiastic alienist whose heart and soul was in his work.

  8. This distinguished alienist thought that, when practiced in childhood, masturbation might lead to insanity.

  9. Friedreich, a German alienist of wide outlook and considerable insight, emphasized the connection between the sexual and the religious emotions, and brought forward illustrative cases.

  10. She hadn't been able to get her alienist up here, but she had constituted herself a psychic detective on her own account.

  11. As the Austrian alienist cannily remarks, unless the thing were desired there would be no necessity to impose taboo restrictions concerning it.

  12. See, for example, Alienist and Neurologist for August, 1916, and New York Medical Journal for Oct.

  13. Royer-Collard, an eminent alienist of that period, then at the head of Charenton, declared De Sade to be sane, and his detailed report is still extant.

  14. It may well be, as Kiernan has argued (Alienist and Neurologist, 1891; ibid.

  15. Moyer, Alienist and Neurologist, May, 1907, and private letter from Dr.

  16. The patient," writes the well-known alienist to whom I am indebted for the above history, "consulted me lately.

  17. Sensations of pleasure without those of touch appear to be normal at the tip of the penis, as pointed out by Scripture, quoted in Alienist and Neurologist, January, 1898.

  18. Prince" was an alienist to whom another James cousin had lately been married.

  19. Her husband was the alienist to whom the reader will remember that the mad Minny was consigned in a previous letter.

  20. Lowenthal as “the alienist consulted in the Harry Thaw case” and the one “who treated John Alexander Dowie of Zion City fame and Pope Leo XIII.

  21. The most scrupulous modern alienist would hesitate to deprive either Bernardo or Porzia of the right to parenthood.

  22. By permission of "Alienist and Neurologist.

  23. It was not necessary to be an alienist to detect his insanity.

  24. The alienist will find other sources of neurosis and atavism in the little town of Tréguier in which Renan was born.

  25. And every one will think of the great poet-alienist who divined insanity in genius, and left of it a monumental portrait in Hamlet, the man afflicted by folie du doute.

  26. Débureau in like manner went to consult an alienist about his melancholy; he was advised to go to Débureau.

  27. It was this candid statement by Lombroso that moved Professor Chiaia, a friend of Eusapia's, to write the great alienist a letter which was in effect a challenge.

  28. Booth, "Coitus Interruptus and Coitus Reservatus as Causes of Profound Neurosis and Psychosis," Alienist and Neurologist, Nov.

  29. McBride, "The Life and Health of Our Girls in Relation to Their Future," Alienist and Neurologist, Feb.

  30. The public regard asylums with horror, and the path of the alienist is thorny, for he is exposed to continual accusations and threats whatever he may do, a situation which does not encourage him to suggest bold innovations.

  31. It is possible, however, that this very opinion may be a fixed idea or symptomatic eccentricity of the alienist himself.

  32. An eminent alienist affirms that very few persons we meet in the counting-room, on the street or in society, or with whom we enjoy pleasant intercourse at their firesides, are of perfectly sound mind.

  33. We refer to an alienist who published in a morning paper a series of articles on the defectives.

  34. Recently an alienist wanted to prove that all the idiots, without exception, who had been treated in his asylum had been improved.

  35. By way of a joke we tackled a medical alienist who had a seat on the commission.

  36. The modern alienist is just as sure of the diminution of responsibility, though he considers it due to the fact that for some physical reason the will is not able to act or prevent action as it is under normal conditions.

  37. Needless to say, the adjudication of how much may be due to the habitual neglect of repression of lower instincts is extremely difficult, and this constitutes the problem which the alienist must try to solve.

  38. It supposes an appreciable unsoundness of the will, memory, and understanding, or of one or two of these faculties, but no alienist has given a short differentiation of that unsoundness.

  39. In a word, these patients present to the alienist the most serious problem in the calculation of responsibility that can possibly be imagined.


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    Other words:
    alienist; psychiatrist; psychologist