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Is Katatonia a Special Form of Mental Disorder?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

M. J. Nolan*
Affiliation:
Richmond (Dublin District) Asylum

Extract

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.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1892

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Footnotes

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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