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The fact that psychiatry lags in development and recognition behind other branches of medicine is due in part to the crudity of its clinical methods. The evolution of interest in science is from simple, obvious and tangible problems to more intricate and impalpable researches....
_Brief survey of the ideas associated with stupor:_ Having thus described the formal manifestations of the various stupor reactions, it will now be interesting to see what ideas...
3. Chapter 3the subject since then. The researches of the later French School showed that stupor often occurs in the course of major hysteria, but this left many of these episodes obviously...
10. Chapter 10We have described typical cases of benign stupor and isolated certain interrelated symptoms which, when they dominate the clinical picture, we believe establish the diagnosis of...
17. Chapter 17The cases of benign stupor which we report here are not clinical curiosities. Taking the symptoms as the products of a reaction type, the latter is really quite common. One, the...
13. Chapter 13As we have seen, the benign stupors are characterized by apathy, inactivity, mutism, a thinking disorder, catalepsy and negativism. All these symptoms are also found in the stup...
5. Chapter 5An important “catatonic” symptom is a tendency to sudden, impulsive, unexplainable acts. Such actions occur occasionally in benign stupors and, since we attempt an understanding...
4. Chapter 4The cases thus far considered, namely, those of marked stupor, are fairly well known and have been studied by others. Less well known and formulated, but even more important fro...
12. Chapter 12In the previous chapter mention has been made of our view that manic-depressive insanity is a disease fundamentally based on some constitutional defect, presumably physical, but...
9. Chapter 91. INACTIVITY. We must now turn our attention to the other cardinal symptoms of the stupor reaction, and quite the most important one of these is the inactivity. It is convenien...
6. Chapter 6This is one of the most interesting and important of the stupor symptoms. We are accustomed to think of the functional psychoses having symptoms to do with emotions and ideas in...
16. Chapter 16It being established that stupors occur as a temporary form of insanity[12] psychiatry is faced at once with the problem of describing these conditions accurately in order to as...
11. Chapter 11We must now discuss the most difficult of all the aspects of the stupor problem. The subject is so involved and the evidence so inconclusive that observers will probably interpr...
18. Chapter 18[25] Leroy: “Un cas de stupeur, guéri au bout de deux ans et demi.” _Bull. de la Soc. Clin. de Méd. Ment._, III, 276, 1910. Abstracted in _Zeitschr. f. d. ges. Neurol. u. Psychi...
8. Chapter 8The most constant and significant symptom in the stupor reaction is the change in affect. This extends from mere quietness in the mildest phases of the disease through the stage...
14. Chapter 14In any functional psychosis an offhand diagnosis is dangerous. When one deals with such a condition as stupor, however, the problem is exacting, for, although “stupor” may be se...
15. Chapter 15In dealing with cases of benign stupor the first duty of physician and nurse is naturally the physical hygiene of the patient. More is needed to be done in the bodily care of th...
1. Chapter 1The fact that psychiatry lags in development and recognition behind other branches of medicine is due in part to the crudity of its clinical methods. The evolution of interest i...
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