Feigned Insanity How Most Usually Simulated And How Best Detected

Author : Henry Wentworth Acland
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230227481
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (274 download)

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Download or read book Feigned Insanity, How Most Usually Simulated, and How Best Detected; an Essay to Which Was Awarded the Gold Medal in the Class of Medical Jurisprudenc written by Henry Wentworth Acland and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ...the impressions wrought upon particular faculties or passions, it is observed, that fear of aggression most usually occupies the melancholic; ordinary objects are to them a source of vexation; impending evils that might have been a cause of alarm to them when in health, alarm them now; the police, the anger of the elements, or mystic art, or the greater forces of nature, electricity, and the like, are about to destroy them. The malevolent passions are generally inactive unless roused against those who are, or who are thought to be, the cause of their sorrows: the benevolent affections are frequently in extravagant excess, begetting suspicion, jealousy, and sorrow; sorrow that they have injured parents they never wronged; jealousy of the lost affections of him who is still their own; suspicion that they are objects of hatred, where, indeed, the love they mourn for has never fled. Nor do the melancholic patients rest passive 40 BODILY SYMPTOMS under their sufferings; not resting hopes in religion, their minds being disordered, suicide is frequently their chief aim, and death their only desire. As with the maniac, so with the melancholic, sleep is impaired: sad dreams oppress, and nightmare awakes him; he rises in the morning haggard, dreads the day that is before him; and yet more the night that is to follow. But this state is not universal. The senses, as will have been gathered, are generally unimpaired; nay, often acute. Both hallucinations and illusions may, and frequently do, attend Melancholy, but these are rather of complication than of necessity. Sight and hearing are active, and the other senses present nothing distinctive of this class of mental disorder. It is common that food should be wholly refused, whether from loss of...