Benign Stupors A Study Of A New Manic Depressive Reaction Type

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“AUGUST HOCH recognized the confusion arising out of the classification of certain functional psychoses as Manic-Depressive Insanity; he therefore set out to show that the elation and depression (from which the name has been derived) are of no more theoretical importance than other moods which characterize the group. The volume before us, edited by Dr. J. MacCurdy after the death of Hoch, is designed to show that the symptom-complex associated with apathy is as distinct as that of mania, and the book introduces the functional psychoses characterized by benign stupor.” -Nature International Weekly Journal of Science TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE EDITOR'S PREFACE I. INTRODUCTION AND TYPICAL CASES OF DEEP STUPOR II. THE PARTIAL STUPOR REACTIONS III. SUICIDAL CASES IV. THE INTERFERENCES WITH THE INTELLECTUAL PROCESSES V. THE IDEATIONAL CONTENT OF THE STUPOR VI. AFFECT VII. INACTIVITY, NEGATIVISM AND CATALEPSY VIII. SPECIAL CASES: RELATIONSHIP OF STUPOR TO OTHER REACTIONS IX. THE PHYSICAL MANIFESTATIONS OF STUPOR X. PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF THE STUPOR REACTION XI. MALIGNANT STUPORS XII. DIAGNOSIS OF STUPOR XIII. TREATMENT OF STUPOR XIV. SUMMARY OF THE STUPOR REACTION XV. THE LITERATURE OF STUPOR "Clinical psychiatry has been content with the dime-novel type of character delineation. This is all the more disappointing, inasmuch as the study of insanity should contribute largely to our knowledge of everyday life. This defect can only be remedied by looking on every case as a problem in which the origin of each symptom is to be studied and its relation traced to all other symptoms and to the personality as a whole. This is an ambitious task and we do not pretend to any great achievement, merely to a beginning."

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Excerpt from Benign Stupors: A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type A word should be said as to the origin and history of this book. When the late Dr. Hoch became Director of the Psychiatric Institute of the New York State Hospitals in 1910, he found there an interest in just the kind of psychiatric research which it was his ambition to further. His predecessor, Adolf Meyer, had developed the conception that the psychoses should be looked on as psychobiological reactions rather than rigid nosological entities and had inculcated the habit of scrupulously thorough examination and record of what the patient said and did. Meyer had broken away from the sterile habit of making diagnoses in accordance with the set terms used to label symptoms; and his work and that of his assistants thus led to a collection of valuable material which could serve as a useful starting point for the keen clinical investigation of Hoch. Specifically, attention had already been fixed on the study of the so-called functional psychoses, comprising what are generally termed Dementia Praecox and Manic-Depressive Insanity. An urgent problem in this field was to separate different reaction types in order to discover which were recoverable and which chronic or progressive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."