THE MINIMIZING OF INSANITY

The Materialism of Insanity

The metaphysician, though never so good a theorist, the physician, however sound a practitioner, must both give place to one who, sitting by the well of knowledge, dispenses with grace and justice to his thirsting brethren. He who, by opportunity and industry, can draw the deepest, to him we may look for the best and clearest supply. The pathology of insanity is still in its infancy; nothing is...

Insanity

The Psychology of Insanity

THIS b)ook comprises six papers read at the fourth annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Human Biology. This Society was founded in 1958 with the object of furthering the study of the biology of human populatons and of man as a species, and the present symposium reviewed the considerable recent advances towards an understanding of human variation. Each paper is a discrete entity with...

The Pathology of Insanity

of our present state," he says, " the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason." All reflecting minds will agree with the great moralist on the transcendent importance of this subject. The disorders of the senses, of the limbs, of the body, possess some mitigating circumstances. Deafness, total and complete, may beset a man: the voice of friendship, the tones of childho...

The Psychology of Insanity