Mental medicine and nursing : for use in training-schools for nurses and in medical classes and a ready reference for the general practitioner . s thestage of mild depression and that of subjectiveanalysis. There arise in him vague ideas ofconspiracy and distrust, in which he feels thatthere is a disposition on the part of others todeprive him of his just rights, such as his propertyor business. Gradually his feelings of suspicion assume definiteshape. Having lostin a measure hisreticence he nowopenly proclaims hisbelief that he hassecret enemies whoare trying to do himinjury. These delu-sions
Mental medicine and nursing : for use in training-schools for nurses and in medical classes and a ready reference for the general practitioner . s thestage of mild depression and that of subjectiveanalysis. There arise in him vague ideas ofconspiracy and distrust, in which he feels thatthere is a disposition on the part of others todeprive him of his just rights, such as his propertyor business. Gradually his feelings of suspicion assume definiteshape. Having lostin a measure hisreticence he nowopenly proclaims hisbelief that he hassecret enemies whoare trying to do himinjury. These delu-sions of persecutionmay be vague, orthey may be suffi-ciently pointed thatthe patient feels as-sured of the identityof his re viler. Whenthis takes place, he rIG. 55.—Paranoia, religious type. may b e c o m e,through a spirit of revenge, a dangerous character,needing curtailment of his liberty for the protec-tion of society. One case under the writers care,a man of good intelligence, developed was an artist and popular with his reserved and self-centred, his peculiaritieswere attributed to his poetic DEGENERATIVE PSYCHOSES For some years before the attack he was exactingand tyrannical towards his wife and children, buthe maintained his self-control before and suspicion he read into every act, everyword, and he even searched the daily news forevidence of plots and conspiracy against went about thehouse at night withdangerousweapons, keepinghis wife in so ner-vous a tension thatlife became a bur-den. Forced to theextreme, she longthreatened separa-tion from him. Helived in a thicklysettled neighbor-hood of a smallcity. One summerevening he ap-peared at the reardoor of his resi-dence and dis-charged his gun, which he held in his hand. Hewas promptly taken in hand by the authorities,who found him, upon examination, to be this class may be found some of the mostnotorious persons of the criminal insane. Posi
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