Insanity in Imbeciles

Talented Imbeciles

The differential diagnosis of the type of feeblemindedness known as imbecility is by no means an artisan's job. No foot rule, scale, or point system has been devised or will ever be devised that will relieve the clinician of long, patient, and discriminating analysis in arriving at a diagnosis. An individual may be diagnosed or classified as an imbecile on the mental scale, on the intellectual ...

Idiots, Imbeciles, and Harmless Lunatics

In the previous number of the Journal (page 96) it is stated that ten years ago it was suggested that the five southwestern counties of England should unite and form a separate establishment for the care, training, and education of the imbeciles and younger idiots, such as that at Earlswood, in Surrey. The practical reasons adduced for the division and separation is that the association with ep...

Insanity

On Hallucinations in Insanity

The hallucinations and illusions of melancholic monomania (lypemania of Esquirol) are characterized by fixity, intensity, and tenacity, as well as by expression, which distinguish them from those observed in acute delirium and mania. The integrity of the reasoning power, excepting always some obscured portions, "permits lis in most cases to analyse the phenomena and follow their modifications w...

Insanity in Switzerland