A Text-Book of Insanity (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Text-Book of Insanity (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Mercier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Text-Book of Insanity In giving a preliminary sketch of the normal processes of which insanity is the disorder, I have followed a course which is very unusual, but which I have pursued for many years in lecturing on the subject, and have found to be a very useful foundation on which to build a knowledge of insanity. Special K stress is laid upon observation of conduct, which is in my opinion the key to the subject. The causes of insanity have also been separately dealt with, and as I hold that there are not insanities, but insanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.