Medical Treatment of Insanity

No. II. On the Medical Treatment of Insanity

The purport of this lecture is the Medical Treatment of Insanity. It may be surmised that I have selected this subject with the view of submitting for your consideration, and through you to the profession, the particulars of a mode of treating the diversified morbid affections of the mind, original in its conception, invariably successful in its results, and based upon my own peculiar views as ...

[Art, medical treatment and insanity: a territory in flux].

Based on a combination of clinical and pedagogical experience in occupational therapy, which interlinks artistic practices and therapeutic processes, we carried out a historical study designed to investigate how the fields of mental health and art became interrelated in Brazil between the mid 19th and 20th centuries. The methods used for this research, which is underpinned by the thinking of Fo...

Insanity - a Medical-legal Enigma?

There is no mental disease called insanity. Insanity is a legal term used to designate the condition of certain people who exhibit particular symptoms of mental diseases. A patient may be psychotic, but the law acts upon the assumption that he is not insane until there is a judical determination that he is. Where insanity as a defense in criminal cases is concerned, many medical men believe tha...

The Sedative Treatment of Insanity

The Treatment of Insanity, Ancient and Modern

The early history of medicine clcarly proves that diseases which are now of ordinary occurrcncc were known to the ancients, and that they were well acquainted with many remedies for the treatment of them which we still esteem valuable. The reason of this is obvious. The practice of mcdicinc was originally founded on observation and experience. AV e accordingly find that the priest-physicians?na...