"FROM DEMONIACAL POSSESSION TO INSANITY"

Insanity and Demoniacal Possession

It lias scarcely been a matter of doubt that the Evangelists have recorded several cases of insanity. The best defined are those of the demoniac of Gadara, evidently an example of mania; and the bov brought to our Lord after the transfiguration, whose symptoms closely resemble those of epilepsy. These cases will not fail to bring to the minds of those conversant with the wards of a lunatic asyl...

Insanity from Chloroform

During a discussion in the early part of the present session, at the Westminster Medical Society, when a paper was read by Professor Murphy, advocating the use of chloroform in midwifery, Dr. Webster, according to the reports published in the medical journals, mentioned three cases of insanity supervening after the employment of the above powerful agent during childbirth; to which he afterwards...

Insanity

Letter to Editor. Possession-unraveled.

Medical College and Krakow Branch of Polish Psychiatric Association organised screening of the movie entitled: " Walka z szatanem " (" Fight against Satan ") in Con-The discussion on the images shown in Konrad Szołajski's documentary involved a large group of representatives of various research communities, among whom were psychiatrists, psychotherapists, the clergy, philosophers, representativ...

A Bottom-up Approach to Concept Possession

We present a bottom-up approach to the problem of fixing psychological requirements to concept possession. It is argued that four constraints are required: abstraction, directedness, multimodality and off-line processing. Taken together, these psychological requirements yield a view of concepts similar (on certain aspects) to “dual” philosophical pictures: both inferential role and referential ...