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Volume 165 - Issue 5 - November 1994

Contents

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Short papers

  • Henry Maudsley on Swedenborg's Messianic Psychosis

  • John Johnson
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 690-691
  • Background

    Creativity, religiosity and madness have long been thought to be aetiologically interrelated.

    Method

    Henry Maudsley's little known pathography of the 17th century Swedish philosopher and polymath, Emanuel Swedenborg, was examined.

    Results

    Swedenborg developed a messianic psychosis in middle life, considered by Maudsley to be a monomania, possibly due to epilepsy. Many of Swedenborg's contemporaries thought of him, however, as a religious eccentric. Under criticism from Swedenborg's followers, Maudsley avoided further reference to Swedenborg, and the pathography was lost from view.

    Conclusions

    Renewed interest is deserved in the contentious issues of the nature of religiosity and its relationship to psychotic experience.

    British Journal of Psychiatry (1994), 165, 690–691

Correspondence

  • Suicide prevention in Gotland

  • J. Mark G. Williams, Robert D. Goldney
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    02 January 2018, p. 692
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  • Defeating depression in Zimbabwe

  • Melanie Abas, Jeremy Broadhead, Gertrude Khumaslo-Sakatukwa
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    02 January 2018, pp. 692-693
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  • Chromosomal aberration and bipolar affective disorder

  • T. J. Crow
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    02 January 2018, p. 693
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  • Genetics, chance and dysmorphogenesis in schizophrenia

  • John L. Waddington
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    02 January 2018, pp. 693-694
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  • Genetics, chance and dysmorphogenesis in schizophrenia

  • Peter McGuffin, Michael J. Owen, Philip Asherson, Anne E. Farmer
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    02 January 2018, pp. 694-695
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  • Cognitive–behavioural therapy for schizophrenia

  • Carolyn John, Douglas Turkington, David Kingdon
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    02 January 2018, p. 695
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  • Cognitive–behavioural therapy for schizophrenia

  • Jeff Thomas
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  • Anorexia nervosa and schizophrenia

  • Martin Andrew, Brian Harris
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    02 January 2018, p. 696
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  • Mental handicap and the pandemic influenza

  • J. Jancar
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    02 January 2018, pp. 696-697
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  • Ejaculation associated with zuclopenthixol

  • Justin Williams, John O'Brien
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    02 January 2018, p. 697
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  • Sleep disturbance in schizophrenia

  • P.M. Judith Haffmans, Erik Hoencamp, Hendrikus J. Knegtering, Bas F. van Heycop ten Ham
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    02 January 2018, pp. 697-698
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  • A Hundred Years Ago: The psychological significance of tattooing

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    02 January 2018, p. 698
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Reading About …

  • What is Existential Psychotherapy?

  • Hans W. Cohn
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    02 January 2018, pp. 699-701

  • Most forms of psychotherapy are rooted in psychoanalytical concepts. Although the majority of psychotherapists and counsellors do not comply with the classical Freudian model – they do not see their clients four or five times a week nor do they sit behind them while they are lying on a couch – they accept the basic psychoanalytical project. This can perhaps be expressed in the following way: unacceptable ‘instinctual’ wishes are warded off and ‘repressed’ into the ‘unconscious’. When they try to return to consciousness, they have to do so in disguise – and a common disguise is that of a symptom. This symptom has to be demasked, so to speak – what has been unconscious has to be made conscious for the symptom to disappear. This is, of course, an over-simplified account, but it is, I think, the essence of the psychoanalytical process and has remained central to psychotherapeutic endeavour.

Books Reconsidered

Book Reviews

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