A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A practical manual of mental medicine / by E. Régis ; with a preface by M. Benjamin Ball ; authorised translation by H.M. Bannister. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![2. DiSOKDRKS IN THE PsYCHIC SPHKTIE. Tlio powerful c'lomonts of insanity in tlie psychic splicre arc : (1) of tlic intellect; (2) of the emotions; (U) of the motor ini])ulses. DrsOHPKUS OF TUE I NTKIJ.ECTl'AI, TyPK. or ihesc we have to describe: «, ileliisive concep- tions; iialliicinations; illusions. (t. —Delvfdve Cnnceptiona. A delusive conc<'])tion, or what amounts to the sanu' ihin^', delirium, foi- delii-ium is notliing' else in the iudividunl than the sum total of his delirious concejitions, is very difficult to deline. If, in cer- tain cases, tlu' delusive ideas are altsnrd or impossi- Idc, in f)ther very nnnieroiis ones tiiey have noth- iuL- in themselves ,a1)surd or incompatible with tlu' natural oiwlcr of thiiios; they are only cf)ntrary to fact, and ii-rational in the mouth of the ])erson utter- ing- them. A man belic\'es he has been changed into l)utter, it is a delusive coiu-eption and also an absurdity; another believes himself dishonored, ruined, condennu'd; this is an idea that involves no impossil)ility, and is only delusive in res])ect to him who believes it of himself. Lenret says truh': '■'■I have sought both in Chaivnton, in the Riceti-e, and in the Salpetriere, for the notions tliat appeared the most insane; then, when I have compai'ed a number of these with what actuallv occurs, 1 have been](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21963009_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
