Outlines of imperfect and disordered mental action.

  • Upham, Thomas C. (Thomas Cogswell), 1799-1872.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Outlines of imperfect and disordered mental action. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section 84. 85. 86. 87. Of excessive facility and Profoundness in the Abstract- ing Power Further Illustrations of this Topic . j ‘ Illustration from Bruyere’s Manners of the Age Other instances illustrative of excessive Abstraction , CHAPTER IX. DISORDERED ATTENTION. 88. Of the general nature of Attention . 89. Of differences in the Degree of Attention . 90. Of Absence of Mind, or inability to fix the Attention ! 91. Illustration of inordinately weak or disordered Atten- tion 92. Cases of sudden failure of the Attention ’. ’. ] 93. Additional illustration of this disordered Action . 94. Of the course to be taken to restore the power of At- tention CHAPTER X. ON DREAMING. 95. General statement in regard to Dreams 96. Connexion of Dreams with our waking Thoughts 9/. Dreams are often caused by our Sensations . 98. Explanation of the incoherency of Dreams . 99. Apparent reality of Dreams. (1st cause ) 100. Apparent reality of Dreams. (2d cause.) 101. Of our estimate of time in Dreaming . 102. Dreams sometimes lay the foundation of a permanent- ly disordered state of Mind . . 103. Mental disorder sometimes developes itself in connex- ion with Dreams 104. Case of destruction of life arising’from a Dream ’ ! CHAPTER XI. SOMNAMBULISM. IX Page 147 149 152 154 157 159 160 161 163 166 166 169 170 171 172 173 175 176 177 178 180 105. General view of Somnambulism . Singular instance of Somnambulism ! 1 ino th,e senses fallinS t0 sleeP succession inn ar Vlews aPP1(cable to the muscles . n o T co!*nexion of Somnambulism with Dreaming )}?• Further illustrations of Somnambulism . 8 ill. Reference to the case of Jane Rider . 181 . 182 . 183 . 185 . 185 .,188 . 189