Prichard and Symonds, in especial relation to mental science : with chapters on moral insanity / by D. Hack Tuke.

  • Tuke, Daniel Hack, 1827-1895.
Date:
1891
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    then enriched science with the most complete work we possess on mental disorders. This able phy- sician, by a series of very interesting observations, has described the symptoms of this variety of partial insanity in which the character, the habits, the affections of the patients undergo a change without disorder of the intelligence. Dr. Prichard has not, perhaps, sufficiently distinguished moral insanity from another variety of insanity, which exists [not only] without intellectual disorder, [but] without dis- order of the affections, which Pinel has called fnanie sans delirey Des Maladies Mentales,” 1838, Vol. ii., p. 63.)* “ But does there really exist a mania,” asks Esquirol, ” in which patients who labour under it preserve their reason intact, whilst they abandon themselves to the most condemnable actions ? Is there a pathological state In which man is irresis- tibly impelled to commit an act which his conscience * There appears to be some confusion in Esquirol’s observations upon Pinel’s fnanie sans delire or raisonnante. In the above passage he speaks of there being no disorder of the affections ; and he also records (p. 70) a case in which there was no disorder of the reason and the affections, and yet at p. 71 he gives the symptoms of fnanie raisonnante as “ the change—the perversion—of the habits, the character, and the affections.”