In the free psychopathic ward of a sanitarium for diseases of the brain--to be watched.
The greater portion of the clientèle of the alienist and neurologist is made up of women who are suffering with neurotic troubles, generally of a psychopathic nature.
An example of the last mentioned self-immolation (self-crucifixion) is given by Berghierri, and is a remarkable instance of the interchangeableness of religious emotion and sexual desire in psychopathic individuals.
Fourth, the present era ofpsychopathic wards in general hospitals for the acutely insane in cities, and colonies for the chronic insane in the country, which is only just beginning to develop.
Another case had lived through several days of delirium tremens, which had been followed by a "wet brain"; the visiting physician considered this patient a fit subject for the psychopathic ward.
A hereditary neuropathic or psychopathic factor is invariable, but similar heredity is the exception.
For this reason it ought to be differentiated from the tics, although, by its development in obvious neuropathic or psychopathic subjects, it is closely linked to them.
Now, if by degeneration be meant a more or less pronounced hereditary psychopathic or neuropathic tendency which betrays itself by actual physical or psychical stigmata, then tic patients are unquestionably degenerates.
In his family and in his personal antecedents there was little or no neuropathic or psychopathic tendency.
She was a psychopathic child, and as a young girl "heard miraculous voices" which led her to devote herself to religion.
But the psychopathic temperament, whatever be the intellect with which it finds itself paired, often brings with it ardor and excitability of character.
You may remember what I said in my opening lecture[323] about the prevalence of the psychopathic temperament in religious biography.
In the haunting and insistent ideas, in the irrational impulses, the morbid scruples, dreads, and inhibitions which beset the psychopathic temperament when it is thoroughly pronounced, we have exquisite examples of heterogeneous personality.
But whatever the cause of heterogeneous personality may be, we find the extreme examples of it in the psychopathic temperament, of which I spoke in my first lecture.
In other pathological cases, insane delusions, for example, or psychopathic obsessions, the source is yet to seek, but by analogy it also should be in subliminal regions which improvements in our methods may yet conceivably put on tap.
He was a typical case of the psychopathic temperament, sensitive of conscience to a diseased degree, beset by doubts, fears and insistent ideas, and a victim of verbal automatisms, both motor and sensory.
As regards the psychopathic origin of so many religious phenomena, that would not be in the least surprising or disconcerting, even were such phenomena certified from on high to be the most precious of human experiences.
Kraepelin, for instance, expresses the opinion that: "The psychopathic charge of a family may reveal itself not only by the appearance of mental disorders but also by other forms of manifestation.
A full account and discussion of the various tests for the mentally subnormal will be found in a recent publication by Doctor William Healy,[12] director of the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute, Chicago.
These are often neuropathic or psychopathic families, and moreover the early awakening of the sexual life is frequently associated with neuropathic or psychopathic symptoms.
But the various psychopathic symptoms, some of which are very severe, lie altogether outside our chosen field of study.
Not infrequently we have to do with neuropathic and psychopathic natures, and the reality of this is quite unaffected by the fact that the superficial observer is convinced that such persons are exceptionally moral.
MacRae has another doctor visiting him, a very melancholy gentleman who is at the head of a private psychopathic institution, and thinks there's no good in life.
He has gone off on a pleasure trip to that psychopathic institution whose head alienist visited us a month or so ago.
And just as I was thinking that I had nicely cured you of this morbid predilection for psychopathic institutions!
As he listened, keeping his eyes on her serenely radiant face, he asked himself what he should have been thinking if he had been a psychopathic specialist studying her case.
He at the same time realised that a psychopathic specialist's opinion of what he himself--Lord Coombe--thought would doubtless have been scientifically disconcerting.
Rahmer[4] made Strindberg the subject of a more comprehensive psychopathic study, and defined his case as one of melancholia daemomaniaca.
Dissociated fields of consciousness may be a psychopathic phenomenon, or indicative of an advanced state of psychic evolution.
He was evacuated to the interior, where the diagnosis of psychopathic double paraplegia, Kernig’s sign, zones of anesthesia in the legs, was made.
And these reflex or physiopathic disorders have a different order of curability from that of hysterical or psychopathic disorders.
On the whole, the eminent German psychiatrist who examined him felt that the case was really one of psychopathic constitution, as he had shown somewhat similar irascibility on a slight occasion before.
Finally, there had never been any personal or family neuropathic or psychopathic history.
Of course, the determination follows no known laws of nerve distribution to skin or muscles, and the effect is apparently a psychopathic or, at all events, a dynamic process without clear relations to the accepted landmarks.
In the wounded soldiers studied by him no neuropathic orpsychopathic stigmata occurred in the family history and previous neuropathic tendencies in the patients themselves were found in about 10%.
This particular school had to adapt itself to the clinical material of the Psychopathic Hospital.
Constitutional psychopathic inferiority, which means a lack of emotional adaptability, usually shows in the family history.
In the region of psychopathic deficiency with hysterical colouring, we encounter numerous phenomena which show, as in this case, symptoms of diverse defined diseases, which cannot be attributed with certainty to any one of them.
We know that in the realm of psychopathic mental deficiency there can arise the most diverse epileptoid accidents, whose classification under epilepsy or hysteria is at least doubtful.
In consequence of special difficulties (unfavourable external conditions, psychopathic disposition of the nervous system, etc.
The demarcation of psychopathic mental deficiency from the normal is an absolutely impossible task, the difference is everywhere only "more or less.
The demarcation of hysteria and certain borderline cases of epilepsy from congenital and acquired psychopathic mental deficiency likewise presents the greatest difficulties.
He was so worked up over my explanation of unrest (a mental status) through instinct-balkings other than sex, that he asked if I would consider using his big psychopathic ward as a laboratory field for my own work.
Then the Yale-Harvard game, followed by three days and two nights in the psychopathic ward at Sing Sing.
How could anyone force a mechanical relief for neurotic orpsychopathic symptoms on someone who didn't want or need it?
He was a psychopathic egotist and a dangerous man.
But there's a kind of psychopathic logic--If she lost her memory through one great shock, she might find it through another.
If you mean the psychopathic line, without being exactly an alienist, well, yes," Lanfear admitted.
Or a psychopathic case suffering from hallucinations or at war with its own impulses.
Hickson of the psychopathic laboratory would give these curious rainy day phantasts identities as weird as the volumes they caress.
I guess," said the sergeant, "we'll have to turn her over to the psychopathic hospital.
We have laid under contribution practically the entire literature on the subject, almost none of which is in English, and also the thorough-going longitudinal case studies made by the Juvenile Psychopathic Institute of Chicago.
Examination showed no gross intellectual defect, but there were certain psychopathic signs which had been displayed from early childhood: he had little endurance and was unable to stand criticism.
Bernard Risch[10] has seen many cases of delinquents with more or less marked psychopathic signs in which pathological lying was the focal point.
Taking it altogether, there was no reason for considering her insane, or as being in any way a psychopathic personality.
Nobody went around in that day to explain the vermicular motion of the stomach or the upward action of nerve-force, or the psychopathic value of animal magnetism.
She drew the psychopathic healer over toward a large old-fashioned bureau that the Martins had brought from the country and that seemed not to have room enough for its ancient and simple dignity in its present close quarters.
So away, away to the Public Psychopathic Ward with poor Mrs. Murphy.
But alas, so far evenpsychopathic treatment cannot promise to stabilize incomes.
Sometimes I get to feeling that they will end up as--as psychopathic barbarians.
A parade of psychopathic barbarians dressed in bells, metals, animal skins, astrologer hats and Scandinavian ornaments.
Lately Sikorski, a professor of psychiatry, described in the Kiev University Record the psychopathic epidemic, as he calls it, of the Malevannians, as manifested in a few villages of Vasilkov County of the Government of Kiev.
