Does Mania include two distinct varieties of Insanity, and should it be Sub-divided?
- 1 July 1890
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in Journal of Mental Science
- Vol. 36 (154) , 338-347
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.36.154.338
Abstract
The first difficulty one meets with in deciding these points is in knowing exactly what is meant by mania. Pinel's definition of mania was insanity, marked “by a strong nervous excitement” of the mind and body, “accompanied by lesions of one or more of the functions of the understanding.” Melancholia was distinguished from it, by there being “no propensity to acts of violence,” and by the insanity being “exclusively upon one subject.”Keywords
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