Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-2plfb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-26T07:43:34.489Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Ætiology, Psycho-Pathology, and Treatment of Mental Exhaustion and Paranoid States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Robert Thompson*
Affiliation:
St. Patrick's Hospital, Dublin

Extract

The teaching that the brain is the organ of the mind is not often referred to by psychiatrists, no doubt because of the relatively barren results which followed attempts to link up psycho-pathological theories with neurological facts. It is, however, I think, essential that we should keep this fundamental doctrine in the forefront of our minds, and that we should remember that some day an anatomical or a pathological verification may be required for our psychological or psycho-pathological theories.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1927 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

(1) McDougall, , Social Psychology, Outline of Psychology, Primer of Physiological Psychology. Google Scholar
(2) Martin, , Lancet, ccx, No. 5354.Google Scholar
(3) Bolton, Shaw, Cole's Mental Diseases, 3rd ed., p. 28.Google Scholar
(4) Bönhoffer, Mott, Journ. Ment. Sci., lxxi, No. 295.Google Scholar
(5) Craig, Maurice Sir, Lancet, Special No., “Early Treatment of Mental Diseases.” Google Scholar
(6) Cole, , Mental Diseases, 3rd ed., p. 316.Google Scholar
(7) Masefield, , Journ. Ment. Sci., lxxii, No. 297.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.