NEUROTIC TENDENCIES IN EPILEPSY

Neurotic tendencies in epilepsy.

Many psychiatrists believe that there are special personality traits characteristic of the epileptic. Various writers have referred to these as mental peculiarities, emotional instability, impulsiveness, moral anergia, and incapacity for productive occupation involving initiative and consecutive activity (Spratling, 1904), eccentricity, supersensitiveness, emotional poverty, and rigidity (Clark...

[Suicidal tendencies in neurotic children and adolescents].

Is Science Neurotic?

Neurosis can be interpreted as a methodological condition which any aim-pursuing entity can suffer from. If such an entity pursues a problematic aim B, represents to itself that it is pursuing a different aim C, and as a result fails to solve the problems associated with B which, if solved, would lead to the pursuit of aim A, then the entity may be said to be "rationalistically neurotic". Natur...

The Neurotic School Child

become sufficiently evident from the subsequent discussion of the specific types. Most neuroses, as recent investigation has shown, have their ultimate origin, not in adult life, but during childhood; and, as a rule, the neurosis in the grownup person is continuous with the neurosis of the child. During childhood itself a nervous affection of this kind may hinder mental growth and hamper normal...

Neurotic Excoriations -- American Family Physician

www.aafp.org/afp AMERICAN FAMILY PHYSICIAN 1981 mented. All lesions are usually of similar size and shape. Patients “dig”at their skin to relieve itching or to extract imaginary objects that they believe are imbedded or extruding from their skin. The lesions are grouped at sites of the body that are easily accessible and usually exposed, such as the extensor surfaces of the extremities, face an...