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Is Katatonia a Special Form of Mental Disorder?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. J. Nolan
M. J. Nolan*
Affiliation:
Richmond (Dublin District) Asylum
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As katatonia, “a mental disorder,” writes Spitzka, “well marked but not generally recognized,” has hitherto received but scant notice in this country, the following observations, based on the study of a group of cases which well illustrated its alleged characteristics, may not be devoid of interest.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 38 , Issue 163 , October 1892 , pp. 531 - 550
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1892

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Footnotes

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Paper read at the Quarterly Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin, May 26th, 1892.

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