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Some Reflections on the Nature of Affective Disorders, Arising from the Results of Prefrontal Leucotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Maurice Partridge*
Affiliation:
St. George's Hospital; late of St. Andrew's Hospital, Northampton

Extract

For the use of the term “affective disorder” there is good literary warrant. Shakespeare, writing in the last decade of the sixteenth century, or just before it, uses the word thus:

“Necessity will make us all forsworn

Three thousand times within this three years' space;

For every man with his affects is born,

Not by might mastered, but by special grace” (92).

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1949 

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