Abnormal psychology : "when the other-one astonishes us".
"Some are said by their fellows "not to think straight"--paranoia. Some often are seen "falling" on the street--epilepsy. Some are considered "growing stupid" by their fellows, to whom they seem to live their intellectual lives backwards, working down, so to speak,...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia, Mo. :
Lucas Bros.,
1927.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "Some are said by their fellows "not to think straight"--paranoia. Some often are seen "falling" on the street--epilepsy. Some are considered "growing stupid" by their fellows, to whom they seem to live their intellectual lives backwards, working down, so to speak, from the top of the ladder to the bottom, "losing their minds"--dementia. Some exhibit their "second childhood" in youth--dementia praecox. Some seem to be weak, their "minds do not seem capable of any effort"--psychasthenia. Some seem to "break down at first gradually and finally with great rapidity completely"-- general paralysis, also called progressive paralysis. Some women seem to have gone mad simply because they belong to the "female division of society"--hysteria (womb trouble). Some men act much like these women although, being males, they possess no womb; they are then said to possess mental complexes in new fashioned terminology. Some are said to be hard to teach, "not keen, having a dull mind"--hebephrenia. Some can "no longer talk as well" as formerly--aphasia, in modern terminology. Some "lose their external interests and devote themselves to inward ruminations"--autistic personality, in more recent terminology. And so forth ad infinitum, without any theoretical principles of scientific merit explaining the sources of these troubles. The student wonders and almost concludes that his confusion resulting from being presented with a chaos of empirically collected symptoms--syndromes they nowadays say in order to mystify him still more--is a virtue. He learns so many details,--even though they are disconnected. But much, in the sense of one comprehensive view, is scientifically more valuable than many details devoid of any logic, according to the Latin proverb "non multa, sed multum." The present book tries to show the student that these symptoms can be classified in a simple manner by deduction, and that his clarity of thought replacing his former confusion is a virtue although the chaos of symptoms and syndromes thereby loses its impressive mystery, so cherished by the poetic-esthetic longings of the crowd untrained in scientific thinking. So far as using this book as a college text is concerned, my endeavor has been to make it suitable in a double way: (1) as a first course in psychology for the medical student, whose curriculum is so crowded that whatever need not be included in his text must be omitted, especially pure metaphysics; and (2) as a second course for that student in liberal arts who has had an introductory and general course in psychology"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |