The Journal of nervous and mental disease . at in-tense interest in her work characteristic of successful years ago (at age of seventeen), her accumulated nervous-ness consequent upon over-zealousness at the University, venteditself in a mental storm, which made sanitorium treatment atLake Geneva necessary. I could glean from the patients remarksthat she must have been mildly maniacal at the time. A complete 774 DORSAY HECHT change of disposition gradually followed. She became dull,apathetic, and occasionally morose. The next outbreak threemonths after the first, was marked by int
The Journal of nervous and mental disease . at in-tense interest in her work characteristic of successful years ago (at age of seventeen), her accumulated nervous-ness consequent upon over-zealousness at the University, venteditself in a mental storm, which made sanitorium treatment atLake Geneva necessary. I could glean from the patients remarksthat she must have been mildly maniacal at the time. A complete 774 DORSAY HECHT change of disposition gradually followed. She became dull,apathetic, and occasionally morose. The next outbreak threemonths after the first, was marked by intense rage and short peri-ods of anger, followed by great grief and depression on the orderof melancholia. Delusions of persecution now appeared and withthe fixed idea that her parents had turned against her she fled thehouse. It was thought best to put her in permanent restraintand papers were issued to that effect setting forth overwork at theUniversity as the assigned cause. At the State Hospital, her delusions continued and were Fig. 5. Other types illustrative of featuresand expressions often seen in the in-stitutional cases of dementia pnecox. She averred that a certain doctor had both hypnotized and pois-oned her with electricity; that all people had been very mean toher; a nights rest could not come to her because of an impendingfear of persecution. In all her talks of persecution, there were nowell-defined, logical, reasonable causes for this idea of persecu-tion ; it was not systematized. Gradually to the restlessness andnervousness there came hallucinations of sight and hearing. Sheclaimed she was married to a certain man and said she was thenwith child. About six months prior to seeing her, she becamevery noisy and disturbed, and tore all her clothing from her body. A STUDY OF DEMENTIA PRAzCOX 775 A new marriage and another pregnancy were claimed. She talkedincessantly. This attack at an end, she became quiet and remaineddocile and tractable for some months.
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