Case 154 is that of a dementia praecox who volunteered for three years in French infantry but forthwith gave indications of mental deterioration.
Another form of typhoid fever complication is perhaps shown in Case 124, wherein the diagnostic question lay between dementia praecox and a post-typhoid encephalitis.
On the whole, however, it would not appear that dementia praecox is at all a frequent phenomenon in the war.
We must conclude here also that no definite evidence exists that dementia praecox can be initiated by the physical factor shell-shock.
Re dementia praecox, Lépine states that in the French army instances of dementia praecox have been numerous in the interior, both at the time of mobilization and at the time of calling out sundry new classes.
Re the so-called Ganser symptom, Hesnard has dealt especially with the value of what he calls the symptom of “absurd answers,” finding the differential diagnosis between dementia praecox and simulation particularly difficult.
The somewhat frequent remissions in dementia praecox make the task all the more difficult.
Re schizophrenia in the German army, Saenger remarks that like paresis, so also latent dementia praecox becomes acute under war conditions.
He hasn't the signs of praecox or depressive," mused the Doctor.
Your description doesn't sound like a praecox or a manic depressive, as I thought originally.
In the beginning we did not know that paranoia and dementia praecox are, in their fully developed phases, inaccessible, and we were justified in trying out our method on all kinds of conditions.
I once was so bold as to propose that paranoia and dementia praecox could be classed together under the common name of paraphrenia.
Research in dementia praecox discloses a symptom and probably a cause of this mental malady to be the withdrawal of the individual from normal social contacts and the substitution of an imaginary for a real world of persons and events.
Dementia praecox has been related by one psychoanalyst to the "shut-in" type of personality.
The question remains open whether the case should be regarded as defective or as belonging to the dementia praecox group.
Nor is the paranoic who chooses to put his interpretation on the surliness of his employer as far estranged from reality as the praecox who recognizes his employer in the person of the physician.
He is now an unmarried man of thirty-three, and although he was diagnosed dementia praecox ten years ago is now earning $1200 year as a stenographer in the government service.
The next two cases represent two special types of psychoses: one a chronic manic and the other a definite praecox with recurrent attacks.
And all gradations from pure paranoia to dementia praecox seem to have corresponding losses in the sense of reality as embodied in delusions.
We can therefore say that the praecox who is scattered really does not know his own ideas.
Kraepelin has split off from dementia praecox a separate psychosis--Paraphrenia systematica--which he timidly defends as a clinical entity apparently because the course is a long one and the deterioration less marked than in dementia praecox.
On the other hand it is an every day experience that a dementia praecox patient may show no scattering when conversing on indifferent subjects but that his train of thought loses logical sequence when he launches into his ideas.
If we are to regard it as a psychosis then we expect it to show other reactions, just as dementia praecox shows manic depressive symptoms.
That is a common peculiarity, and all the queer work around Tracy's deathbed points unmistakably to a mind disordered by dementia praecox and nothing else.
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