Elements of the pathology of the human mind / [Thomas Mayo].

  • Thomas Mayo
Date:
1838
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    CHAPTER II. Mental causes of insanity, and their contraries, moral and intellectual.—Moral causes and preventives of in- sanity, to be found among passive moral conditions, not active principles.—Passive conditions of the moral de- partment of mind considered.—Regretfulness leading to despondency and disappointment.—Fearfulness, and its kinds.-- Deficiency and completeness of moral faculty.— Selfishness and kindliness.—Sympathy.——Relation of the above states to active principles.-— Analogy between insanity and double consciousness.~-The latter state apparently produced by mesmerism. J wave endeavoured, in the last chapter, to draw up a statement of the phenomena, and their order of occurrence, which constitute an attack of in- sanity. I proceed to a consideration of those states of the human mind, as well as their con- traries, under which the influence of the will over the succession of our ideas is most likely to be so situated, that insanity should supervene. Much of my reasoning on this subject must be deductive rather than inductive. The recognized C
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