Clinical psychiatry : a text-book for students and physicians / abstracted and adapted from the seventh German edition of Kraepelin's 'Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie' by A. Ross Diefendorf.
- Diefendorf, A. Ross (Allen Ross), 1871-1943
- Date:
- 1907
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Clinical psychiatry : a text-book for students and physicians / abstracted and adapted from the seventh German edition of Kraepelin's 'Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie' by A. Ross Diefendorf. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![are diverted by unimportant ideas, reminiscences, and incidents, and need to be frequently led back to their sub- ject. The following is an example (the patient being asked when she left the Hartford Retreat): — My mother came for me in January. She had on a black bom- bazine of Aunt Jane's. One shoestring of her own and got an- other from neighbor Jenkins. She lives in a little white house kitty corner of our'n. Come up with an old green umbrella 'cause it rained. You know it can rain in January when there is a thaw. Snow wasn't more than half an inch deep, hog killing time, they butchered eight that winter, made their own sausages, cured hams, and tried out their lard. They had a smoke house. [But how about your leaving Hartford?] She got up to Hartford on the half-past eleven train and it was raining like all get out. Dr. Butler was-^ having dinner, codfish, twasn't Friday, he ain't no Catholic, just sat with his back to the door and talked and laughed and talked. Here, in spite of many diversions, we see a fairly good sequence in the content of thought which centers around a visit of the patient's mother. In the following example, on the other hand, the pre- dominance of motor speech ideas has led to a massing of habitual speech associations, combinations of common words, and finally to simple sound associations. It might be called an external flight of ideas in contrast to an internal flight of ideas characterized by internal associations. I was looking at you, the sweet boy, that does not want sweet soap. You always work Harvard for the hardware store. Neat- ness of feet don't win feet, but feet win the neatness of men. Run don't run west, but west runs east. I like west strawberries best. Rebels don't shoot devils at night. The train of thought is supplanted by fixed and familiar phrases, in which the influence of linguistic ideas clearly](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21295621_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
