On Man's Power Over Himself to Prevent Or Control InsanityWilliam Pickering, 1849 - 123 páginas |
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Página 21 - The figure of the deceased person never appeared to me after the first dreadful day; but several other figures showed themselves afterwards very distinctly ; sometimes such as I knew, mostly, however, of persons I did not know...
Página 71 - ... the most effectual modes of controlling or preventing it. The best view of it we find is that given by the Rev. J. Barlow, late Secretary of the Royal Institution, in a small work " On Man's Power over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity." The principal position contended for by this author is, " that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised by the individual.
Página 21 - I observed these phantoms with great accuracy, and very often reflected on my previous thoughts, with a view to discover some law in the association of ideas, by which exactly these or other figures might present themselves to the imagination.
Página 21 - I afterwards endeavoured, at my own pleasure, to call forth phantoms of several acquaintance, whom I for that reason represented to my imagination in the most lively manner, but in vain. — For however accurately I pictured to my mind the figures of such persons, I never once could succeed in my desire...
Página 20 - I was alone when this happened ; a circumstance which, as may be easily conceived, could not be very agreeable. I went therefore to the apartment of my wife, to whom I related it. But thither also the figure pursued me. Sometimes it was present, sometimes it vanished; but it was always the same standing figure.
Página 42 - It has already been seen that the delusions of sense may coexist with perfect sanity ; the instances of this, indeed, are so numerous that I should not have time to relate half that I have heard or read of within the last three or four months; but there is another kind of mental derangement, still in a certain degree connected with sense, which is of a more fearful kind, and yet this too is not inconsistent with sanity. A case in point has been given by M. Marc which has been copied into many works...