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Agoraphobia, 92

Alcohol and insanity, 106

Allbutt, Sir Clifford, 27, 34

Amendment of Lunacy Law, need for, 130

Appointments in asylums, 116

Asylums, lunatic, 105 et seq.

Attitude of medical profession to psychology, 102, 106, 111

Attitude of public towards insanity, 78

Analysis, comparison of chemical and psychological, 54

Bacon, Francis, 9

Baltimore Psychiatric Clinic, 110

Bernardin de St. Pierre, 45

Blässig’s case of loss of speech, 43

Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 82

British attitude towards insanity, 79, 120

British medical training, 114

British Medical Journal, 4, 5, 18, 106, 116, 129

Burt, C., 3, 17

Butler’s, Samuel, Erewhon, 103

Cannon on bodily effects of emotion, 8

Carnegie Foundation’s report, 112

La Charité Hospital, 83

Chloroform, use of in cases of loss of speech, 12

Clinics for treating mental disorders, 84, 107, 121

Clinics, cost of, 125

” functions of, 83, 121

” efficacy of, 82-85, 123

Common sense not infallible, 58

Conflict, mental and moral, 98

Déjerine and Gauckler, 6, 34, 35, 42, 44, 45, 46, 90, 120

Defects of British methods, 120

Derfflinger, sailor from German battle-cruiser, 43

Diagnosis, importance of exact, 47 et seq.

Dreams, 22, 61-63

Emotion of fear, 92

Emotions, 3, 9

Emotional factor as cause of mental disturbance, 71

Evils resulting from delay in treatment, 81

Fear, 92, 95

Financial aspect of reform, 125 et seq.

Firmness, 28, 31

Flexner’s report on medical education, 110-113

Forgetfulness, 49

Forsyth, D., 4, 8

Freud, S., 63, 73

Gaupp on hysteria, 22, 23

German attitude towards mental disorder, 84

Giessen clinic, 84, 122

Hanwell asylum, 131

Hart, Bernard, 57, 119

Heredity, the influence of, 78, 86, 88, 89

Hesse, experience in, 82

Hypnotism, 36 et seq.

” usefulness in recent cases, 38

Hypnotism, objections to use of, 39-44

Hysteria, 22, 30, 94

Instincts, 3, 91

International Congress of Medicine, 110

Isolation, treatment by, 32 et seq.

Isolation, limits to usefulness of, 34, 35

Jung, C. G., 71, 74, 86

Kindness, therapeutic value of, 45

Kraepelin, E., 91

Lancet, 4, 5, 14, 37, 130

Law relating to Lunacy, need for amendment, 130

Loss of memory, 43

” sight, 11

” sleep, 7

” speech, 11, 43

Lunacy, need for amendment of law relating to, 130

Lunatic Asylums, 78

Maghull Military Hospitals, 108

Manchester Guardian, 24

Maudsley Clinic, 125

Medical education, inadequate teaching in psychology, 100

Medico Psychological Society’s report, 80, 105, 108, 112, 118

Mott, F. W., on clinics, 129

Möhr, on theory of isolation, 32

Munich clinic, work of, 122 et seq.

Myers, C. S., on hypnotism, 5, 30, 37, 38

Neurotic parents, influence of, 89

Pear, T. H., on effects of loss of sleep, 7

Persuasion, psychotherapy by, 44

Physical basis of disease, 96, 99

Pierce, Bedford, on need for reform, 18, 79, 83, 129

Proportion of cases cured in asylums, 82, 109

Proportion of cases not needing asylum treatment, 82

Psychoanalysis, 73-75

Psychological analysis, 53 et seq.

Rational treatment, 46

Re-education, 53, 72

Régis, on significance of word “neuropathic”, 94

Reform of methods for dealing with mental disturbance, 128

Research, the importance of, 117

Rows, R. G., 82, 108, 122, 126

Savage, Sir George, 27, 129

Shaw, G. Bernard, 93

Sherlock Holmes, 63

Smith, May, on effects of loss of sleep, 7

Sommer, R., 109

Stewart, Purves, 95

Subjective disturbances, 12

Suggestion, 36

Suppression of emotions, 9

Syphilis, 106

Sympathy, 28, 29

Stigma of insanity, 84

Text-books on psychological medicine, inadequacy of, 118

Treatment, 27

Tuberculosis, comparisons with, 77, 85, 114

Turner’s, W. Aldren, report, 14, 108

Unconscious factors, influence of, 57 et seq.

Understaffing, medical, of asylums for the insane, 81

Weatherley, L. A., 130

Wiltshire, H., 10

Work, therapeutic value of, 50

Worry, relief of, 67, 68

Ziehen, T., 83

Zürich University Psychiatric Clinic, 86