Responsibility in mental disease / by Henry Maudsley.

  • Henry Maudsley
Date:
1899
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Credit: Responsibility in mental disease / by Henry Maudsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    KESPONSIBILITY IN MENTAL DISEASE. CHAPTEE L INTRODUCTORY. Insane persons in asylums : how much they resemble and how much they differ from the sane persons—Erroneous popular and legal notions—Feeling of repulsion towards insanity— Cruel treatment of the insane : from what causes it origi- nated—Effects of the theological and the metaphysical spirit—Mind a function of brain, and disordered mind a result of disordered brain—Influence of bodily organs on mental function—Physiological method of inquiry indis- pensable ; inadequacy of psychological method—Develop- ment of nervous system by education, and its necessary limits—The tyranny of organization—Hereditary influence —Moral responsibility—The criminal nature—Hereditary crime—The production of criminals: their defective physi- cal and mental organization, and proneness to disease— Border-land between insanity and crime—Causes, course, and varieties of intellectual and moral degeneracy to be studied by the inductive method. Notwithstanding the great change which has taken place in opinion and practice with regard to mental disease within the last centnry, there are still persons who, if invited to visit a lunatic asy- lum, would look on the proposal in much the l
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