IS THERE AN EPILEPTIC PERSONALITY MAKE-UP?
- 1 October 1928
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry
- Vol. 20 (4) , 799-803
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1928.02210160140011
Abstract
There has been a tendency in recent years to look on the personality traits of epileptic persons as a specific manifestation. These traits are egocentricity, supersensitiveness, irritability, emotional poverty and stiffness of mentation. It is asserted that the character faults are present even before the appearance of the seizures. Increasing slowness and diminished capacity for any kind ofactivity is said to occur long before the epileptic disorder manifests itself. In recent years, Clark1has formulated the conception that epilepsy should be looked on as a psychobiologic disorder, and he regards it as an outflow from the homosexual component which is not sublimated or accepted. According to this point of view, the epileptic make-up is deep-rooted in narcissism, which results from poorly repressed homosexuality. The extroverted sexual life of epileptic persons is said to cease somewhere between 25 and 30 years of age, and the whole libido is then focusedKeywords
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