Psychiatric Experience Research Articles

Human Mentality in the Light of Psychiatric Experience. An Outline of General Psychiatry.

Human Mentality in the Light of Psychiatric Experience. An Outline of General Psychiatry.

Psychiatric and Communicable Disease Experience: New Findings from the Grading Committee

Psychiatric and Communicable Disease Experience: New Findings from the Grading Committee

Psychiatric and Communicable Disease Experience

Psychiatric and Communicable Disease Experience

CONSTITUTIONAL PSYCHOSES ENDING IN PERMANENT RECOVERY

Some time ago one of us offered a theory of personality based mainly on psychiatric experience.1In dealing with the problem of analysis of personality it was pointed out that the task of such analysis consisted not only in direct observation of manifest traits, but also in bringing to light possible latent ones. Among the means for accomplishing the latter, a more systematic utilization of ontogenetic data was suggested. In that theory five elementary components of personality were distinguished, namely: normal, antisocial, cyclothymic, schizophrenic, and epileptic. Each of these was considered to be determined by special germ-plasm factors, and some evidence was brought forward which seemed to indicate that these factors were ranged in a scale of dominance, the normal factor being epistatic (in Bateson's sense) in relation to the others, the epileptic factor hypostatic, and the remaining factors epistatic in relation to some and hypostatic in relation to

A Theory of Personality Based Mainly on Psychiatric Experience.

A Theory of Personality Based Mainly on Psychiatric Experience.

THE GENERA IN CERTAIN GREAT GROUPS OR ORDERS OF MENTAL DISEASE

I want to present to the American Neurological Association certain amplifications of material presented in 1917 as a key to the practical grouping of mental diseases. Under the eleven groups of mental diseases defined in 1917, I wish to place such practical subdivisions as seem to me confirmed by American psychiatric experience. As I find that many persons hardly distinguish between a classification and a key and labor under the impression that I am trying to erect a novel classification of mental diseases, let me insist that I am proposing nothing but a key to the classification of mental diseases according to the entities which I find in common diagnostic usage. I am elsewhere insisting on the extraordinary unanimity which American psychiatrists are now displaying on the matter of psychotic entities. There is, in fact, hardly enough controversy to indicate a healthy progress in the matter of theoretical psychiatry. (There