A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF PSYCHOGENESIS IN THE PSYCHOSES
Abstract
TO IN By BERNARDSTUDY PSYCHOSES.* M. D.,PSYCHO-GLUECK,Hospital D. C.Government Washington,INTRODUCTION. The genetic, psychoses because to be considered in their evolution to some oneor as of etiologic strongly affective in this and morepsychic importance. healthy experience paper are there termed can psychobe found which mental stand disor a coursedefinite relation out prominently turbances quence of someexperiences They are individuals eitherin previouslyin conse-of a pleasantdisagreeable nature, and which upon the removal of the psychic though atric German and the subject. That nature much mental stress disorders on this, one,disappear more or less promptly irritant which provoked them. Alor less foreign a great in valuable due although overlooked writers, in the especially psychithethis literaturesubject ofhas thismore devoted is richcountry,and French, have German literatureamount of study to it, contributions to this purely general psychic tendency in laid is to for we funcfoundmay to-day,to causes The older theis acknowledged andby everyone. although changes we in thepsychiatrists endeavoring to account deranged, purely to bea materialistic find some the variousare constantly nervous system of the mental origin is the mechanism mentallymanifestations that there exist which owe their psyche. the Hysteria psychogeneticare bound to admit tional in character exclusively which in the illustratesdisorders to causes disorder