The pathology of emotions : physiological and clinical studies

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THE PATHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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CHAPTER I. The Physiological Effects of Physical Agents on Man

Summary — Air — Atmospheric Pressure — Temperature — Hygrometric State — Electric Tension — Ingesta — Light, Sound, Odours, Savours — The Equivalence of Sensorial Excitations ; Coloured Vision, Synsesthesias — The Physical Signs of the Sensations Page 1.

CHAPTER H.

The Pathological Effects of Physical Agents.

Summary — Cold — Pathology of Night — Influence of Night on Maladies — Paralyses of Inirritation — Paralyses of Exhaustion — Nervous Shock — Default and Excess of Excitation Page 50.

CHAPTER HI.

Physical Activity and the Physiological Conditions of Attention.

Summary — The General Effects of Physical Exercise — Sensibility and Motility — Fatigue and Anaesthesia — The Physiology of Attention — The Energy and Swiftness of Voluntary Movements Page 0).

CHAPTER IV.

Insufficient or Excessive Physical Exercise.

Summary— Immobility, Fatigue, and Paralyses by Exhaustion . Page 126.

CHAPTER V.

The Physiological Conditions of the Emotions.

Summary— Physical Conditions of Brain Activity— The Mental State of the Dying— The Pleasure of Activity— The Physical Conditions of the Emotions : the Pulse : the Arterial Tension : the Peripherical Circulation : the Electrical Resistance, Respiration, Temperature, Digestion, Secretions, Sweat, Electric Tension, Excretions, Composition of the Blood, Motility— The Expression of the Emotions — Sympathies . . . Page 152.

CHAPTER VI.

The Pathological Effects of the Emotions.

Summary Emotional Intoxication — Death through Moral Emotions — Morbid Effects of the Emotions upon the Circulation— (Edemas— Troubles of the Secretions and Excretions — Troubles of Nutrition — Skin . Page 205.

CHAPTER VII.

Pathological Effects of the Emotions (continued).

Summary Influence of the Emotions upon the Development and Progress of Nervous Maladies — Hysteria, Neurasthenia, Epilepsy, otc.— Influence of the Emotions upon Mental Maladies ..... Page 21)5

Contents.

CHAPTER VIII.

The Curative Effects of the Emotions.

Summary — Influence of the Sthenic and the Asthenic Emotions General Maladies — Gout — Rheumatism — Infections — Nervous Maladies — Chorea Hysteria — Mental Maladies Page 272.

CHAPTER IX.

Influence of States of Excitement and Exhaustion upon Mental

Activity.

Summary — Relations of the Bodily States with Mental Activity Physical Conditions and Emotions, Imagination, Memory, Association Neologisms Fa9e 286‘

CHAPTER X.

Mental Troubles in Relation with the Morbid States of Excitement

and Exhaustion.

Summary— Imagination and Delirium, Mania and Melancholia— Physiology of Some Deliriums Page 313.

CHAPTER XI.

The Physical Signs of the Psychopathies.

Summary— Troubles of Respiration and Circulation— Temperature— State of

Blood Troubles of the Nutrition of the Skin— Troubles of the Secretions

—Of Sensibility and Motility— Resistance to Physical Agents— Influence of Intercurrent Ailments— Alternations • Fa9e 326 '

CHAPTER XH.

The Affective State in the Psychopathies.

Summary— The Intellectual and Moral Defects correspond to the Bodily Defect —All the Abnormal Manifestations of the Mind are the Consequence of this

Defect Fa°e 339‘

CHAPTER XHI.

The Physical Signs of the Hallucinations.

Summary— Hallucinations in General— Hallucinations of Sight— Of Hearmg—

Of the Mind— Of Taste— Of Odour— Of General Sensibility— Of the Genital Sense— Of the Viscera— Of the Sense of Well-Being . . Page 3+3.

CHAPTER XIV.

Morbid Emotivity.

•Summary Division : Diffuse and Systematic— Excess, Diminution, Apathy

ThrMorbid Fears-Hatred of the New or Misoneism-Fear of Open

Spaces-Agoraphobia-Atremia, Stasophobia-Amaxophobia-Claustropho-

bk-Fear of Darkness-Fear of Water and Liquids-Star Madness-Fea of Men-Fear of Crowd^-Fear of Blood-Fear of Ammals-Fear of Disease — Thanatophobia Misophobia Fear of Fear-Fear of One Idea —The Bole of Association— Scruples

Contents.

CHAPTER XV.

Morbid Emotivity (continued).

Summary — Morbid Love — Synecdochical Love — Influence of the Tactile, Olfactory, Auditory, and Visual Sensations — Satyriasis — Nymphomania — Inversion of the Genital Sense, Paradoxical Nymphomania, Masochism, Algopliily — Obsessions — Onomatomania, Impulsions— Dipsomania, Siteomania, Kleptomania — Impulsions, Homicide — Aboulia — Precocity . Page 391.

CHAPTER XVI.

The Organs of the Emotions.

Summary — Ancient Theories, Modern Theories — The Brain and the Great Sympathetic — Congestion and Anemia of the Brain . . Page JjlS.

CHAPTER XVII.

The Individual Conditions of Morbid Emotivity.

Summary — Individual Resistance — Heredity — Degeneracy, Sex, Age, Organic Maladies — Neurasthenia, Hysteria, Fatigue, Emotional Intoxications — Physical Conditions — Hallucinations of Sentiment . . Page J)29.

CHAPTER XVIII.

Influence of the Physical and Mental Constitution upon the Localisation of Physical Troubles of Emotional Origin, and on the Special Form of Psychical Troubles.

Summary — Sensorial Aptitudes — Physical Malformations — Acquired Defects.

CHAPTER XIX.

The Diagnosis of Morbid Emotivity.

Summary — General Maladies — Neurasthenia — -Hysteria — Epilepsy — General Paralysis — Dementia — Idiocy — Degenerescence — Criminality Page 467.

CHAPTER XX.

Individual and Social Consequences of Morbid Emotivity.

Summary — Relations of Morbid Emotivity — Genius and Madness — Crime and Morbid Emotivity — Degenerescence — Sterility . . . Page 1(76.

CHAPTER XXI.

Medical Treatment.

Summary— Physical Agents— Air, Light, Heat, Alimentation, Exercise, Sleep, Moral Treatment : Hypnotic Suggestion .... Page 4S2.

CHAPTER XXII.

Prophylaxis — Legislation.

Summary— Hygiene of Generation, Education, Discipline, Necessity for a Legal Sanction— Necessity for Civil Responsibility— General Application of the Common Right Pa(je 5QQ_