Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered Mental Action

Thomas Cogswell Upham

Harper, 1840 - 399 sivua

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Section INTRODUCTION CHAP I OUTLINES OF MENTAL PHILOSOPHY 1 Extent and importance of the subject to be examined	17

Necessity of some preliminary or introductory State ments	19

The idea of Insanity of Mind predicated on that of Sanity	20

Outlines of the Constitution of the Mind	21

Further considerations on the same subject	23

Of the Intellect particularly the External Intellect	24

Of the Conceptive Power and Conceptions	25

Of the External Intellect in connexion with peculiari ties of character	26

Further illustrations of Somnambulism	188

Reference to the case of Jane Rider	189

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE INTERNAL INTEL	193

Concluding Remarks on Disordered Sensation and Per	197

Disordered mental action in connexion with Time	200

CHAPTER II	206

CHAPTER III	214

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF ASSOCIATION	218

Of the Internal Intellect or the Intellect as it is brought into action independently of the direct agency of the Senses	27

Of the Nature of Original Suggestion	29

Consciousness another form of Internal mental action	30

Of Relative Suggestion or Judgment	32

Of the Nature of the Reasoning Power	33

Remarks on the Imagination	35

Of other important Intellectual Principles	36

Of the Sensibilities in Distinction from the Intellect	37

Other and more Subordinate Divisions of the Sensibil ities NAAAAAA589 27 29 32 33 35 36 37	38

Of the Will and its Relation to the other Powers	40

CONNEXION BETWEEN THE MIND AND BODY 19 The Origin of many mental disorders to be found in the Connexion between the mind and th...	42

The Mind constituted on the Principle of a Connexion with the Body	44

Illustration of the subject from the effects of old	45

The Connexion of the body and mind farther shown from the effects of diseases	46

Shown also from the effects of stimulating drugs and gases	47

Connexion of the Mental Action with the Brain	51

Of popular adaptation combined with philosophical	63

Of the Actual Process in cases of Sensation	69

Of Disordered Sensations and Perceptions connected	75

Illustrations of the foregoing Views in connexion with	82

Section	84

46	85

Illustration from Bruyeres Manners of the Age Page	86

Third Cause of Disordered Auditory Sensations	91

CHAPTER IV	93

Other cases illustrative of Disordered Sensations	97

Illustrations of the Subject from the use of Opium	104

Of the less permanent Excited Conceptions of Sight	111

Of disordered Conceptions combined with a disor	117

CHAPTER VII	123

Second Cause of Spectral Illusions or Apparitions	129

74	134

Farther Illustrations and Remarks on the same Sub	138

Of Natural Defect in the Power of Abstraction	144

Other instances illustrative of excessive Abstraction	154

CHAPTER IX	157

Of differences in the Degree of Attention	159

Illustration of inordinately weak or disordered Atten	161

Cases of sudden failure of the Attention	163

Additional illustration of this disordered Action 94 Of the course to be taken to restore the power of At tention	166

CHAPTER X	169

Connexion of Dreams with our waking Thoughts	170

Dreams are often caused by our Sensations	171

98	172

Apparent reality of Dreams 1st cause	173

Apparent reality of Dreams 2d cause	175

Of our estimate of time in Dreaming	176

Dreams sometimes lay the foundation of a permanent ly disordered state of Mind	177

Mental disorder sometimes developes itself in connex ion with Dreams	178

Case of destruction of life arising from a Dream 176	180

105	181

Singular instance of Somnambulism	182

Of the senses falling to sleep in succession	183

Similar views applicable to the muscles 109 Of the connexion of Somnambulism with Dreaming	185

Of disordered Judgment in connexion with facility	220

Of natural or congenital Moral Derangement	221

Section Page 130 General remarks on the nature of Association	225

Of sluggish and ineffective Association	228

Of mental defect in consequence of too quick and rapid Association	229

Instances illustrative of the preceding section	231

Remarks on fickleness of Character	232

Of temporary excitement of the associating Principle	233

Additional instance of this view of the subject	234

CHAPTER V	237

Cases involving a general prostration of the Memory	238

Of loss of Memory in relation to particular Subjects	241

Impaired Memory in connexion with Names	242

Of loss of Memory during particular periods of Time	244

Of other modifications of disordered Memory	245

CHAPTER VI	246

Of failure of Reasoning from the want of Ideas	248

Of mere weakness or imbecility of the Reasoning Power	249

Of disordered Reasoning in relation to particular sub jects	250

Instance of the foregoing form of perverted Reasoning	252

Of disordered Reasoning arising from a disordered state of the other powers of the Mind	253

Of readiness of Reasoning in the partially Insane	254

CHAPTER VII	256

Great Imagination does not necessarily imply a disor dered or insane action of the Mind	257

Of cases of marked deficiency of Imagination	259

Disorder of the Imagination as connected with Asso ciation and excited Conceptions	260

Disorder of the Imagination as connected with	262

Of the degree of intellectual power possessed in Idiocy	268

Illustrations of the causes of Idiocy	275

DERANGEMENT OF THE SENSIBILITIES	281

CHAPTER II	288

Further remarks on this subject	294

II PROPENSITY TO ACQUIRE OR ACQUISITIVENESS	296

181	303

182	304

183	305

185	308

Of this form of Insanity in connexion with particular	309

188	312

189	313

Of Sympathetic Imitation in large multitudes	315

Additional and striking facts on this subject	321

The desire of Esteem susceptible of a disordered action	328

The irregular action of the Social principle exists	334

CHAPTER VIII	341

Of other forms of Hypochondriasis	347

Other illustrations of the disordered action of this pas	353

Further illustrations of congenital Moral Derangement	360

Of Association in connexion with the Appetites	366

Casual Association in connexion with objects	372

DISORDERED ACTION OF THE WILL	379

CHAPTER II	385

Further remarks on imbecility of Will	388

Additional illustration of the preceding view	394

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ABSTRAC affected appear attention auditory nerve belief body brain cause ception CHAPTER character circumstances conceptive power connexion Consciousness consequence considered degree disease disordered action DISORDERED CONCEPTIONS disordered mental action DISORDERED SENSATION distinct doctrine dreams ence eral excited exercise existence External Intellect external perception fact farther feelings frequently give hearing ideas illusions or apparitions illustrate imagination inordinately insanity instance internal intimate ject Julius Cæsar knowledge less ment mental disorder Mental Philosophy mentioned merely mind nature ness nexion notice objects optic nerve organ of sense Original Suggestion outward organ papillæ particular peculiar perceive perhaps person phantasms Phrenology physical present principle properly reasoning power relation Relative Suggestion remark retina says Dr seems sensations and perceptions sensibilities sensorial organ sight sion sleep smell sometimes somnambulism somnambulist sound Spectral Illusions statement suppose susceptible taste term things thought tion various visual visual perception vivid words

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Otsikko	Outlines of Imperfect and Disordered Mental Action Numero 6 / Harper's family library
Kirjoittaja	Thomas Cogswell Upham
Kustantaja	Harper, 1840
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Digitoitu	29. heinäkuu 2008
Pituus	399 sivua

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