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Auto-suggestion and Delusional Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Thomson*
Affiliation:
Horton Asylum, Epsom

Extract

The presence of delusions, whether arising primarily or following other mental states, is significant of a faulty cerebral action, yet the co-existence of normal ideas suggests that the morbid process is limited to certain groups of nerve-cells. It is thus reasonable to suppose that many of the nerve-cells associated with ideation are in such cases working normally. There would appear to be “wrong thought centres” or “wrong series of associations” giving rise to delusions.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

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