More akin to the tics is stereotypy of written language, so common an appanage of mental disease.
The conception of degeneracy, which, at this time, obtains throughout the science of mental disease, was first clearly grasped and formulated by Morel.
This not very happy expression, invented by French psychiatry, denotes that form of mental disease in which states of excitement and depression follow each other in regular succession.
It corresponds in art and poetry to hallucination in mental disease.
Such a proceeding gave him the impression of an indecency, an aberration, resembling that form of mental disease called “exhibitionism.
And there is very good reason for this limitation, since such illusions of the senses are the most palpable and striking symptoms of mental disease.
In this way, our dream-life touches that childish condition of the intelligence which marks the decadence of old age and the encroachments of mental disease.
D Statistician, New York State Hospital Commission The burden of mental disease is each year becoming heavier.
In certain cases of mental disease a morbid impulse or idea may take such a despotic possession of the patient as to drive him to the infliction of an injury.
It does not appear necessary to consider any further of the groups of mental disease.
There is no record of any disability or symptom of nervous or mental disease at enlistment.
Such a condition is equally possible to the victim of mental disease, where the knowledge of right and wrong has no real relevancy.
Nowhere in psychiatry is this so apt to be the case as in that form of mental disease known as paranoia, where we are dealing with a diseased personality which in many respects still approaches and resembles normal man.
To the legal mind the transition from mental well-being to mental disease is exemplified by that wholly artificial, and to the psychiatrist's mind, subsidiary question of legal certification.
Upon the expiration of his sentence we were obliged to discharge the patient because he showed no symptoms of mental disease, and in consequence we had no authority for holding him in a hospital for the insane.
To deny Satan was atheism; and perhaps nothing did so much to fasten the epithet "atheist" upon the medical profession as the suspicion that it did not fully acknowledge diabolical interference in mental disease.
One result of this idea was a mode of cure which especially aggravated and spread mental disease: the promotion of great religious processions.
Family history is negative so far as mental disease is concerned, but there seems to have been a decadence of stock as manifested in the steady dropping of her family in the social scale.
A brief mention of renal disease in the general etiology of mental disease is made by Ballet.
The disease is in every case associated with gradually advancing mental enfeeblement, and very frequently is complicated by attacks of mental disease.
The hereditary transmission of a liability to mental disease must be reckoned as the most important among all predisposing causes of insanity.
The gist of these statistics is that, with the aid of a trained social worker, it is possible to treat certain forms of mental disease effectively in an out-patient clinic.
There is a distinct place for them in this connection, however, for in this way they catch patients who do not know that their troubles are really symptoms of mental disease.
Many cases of mental disease can be safely discharged from an insane hospital if there is assurance that they will be properly followed up in their homes.
Recent conferences on mental hygiene have emphasized the fact that the traditional conception of mental disease, raving insanity, is far behind the times.
The physician in speaking of mental disease means a more or less permanent departure from the normal or usual way of thinking, acting, or feeling.
In speaking of mental disease, it is important for the layman to keep in mind a few fundamental principles held by the physician.
What applies to physical disease is just as applicable to mental disease.
He finds that Mohammed, from all accounts, was a demagogue, a charlatan, and a victim of mental disease.
Most doctors of the time were mere empirics; dabbled more or less in alchemy; and, in the treatment of mental disease, were little better than children.
The treatment to which, in consequence of his belief in possession, unfortunate persons like Mainy and Sommers, who were probably only suffering from some harmless form of mental disease, were subjected, was hardly calculated to effect a cure.
One of the chief causes of the persistency with which the old belief was maintained was the utter ignorance of the medical men of the period on the subject of mental disease.
A change arose in the conception of mental disease in favour of a more philosophic moral attitude.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental disease" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
