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On so-called Paranoia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

E. L. Dunn
E. L. Dunn*
Affiliation:
Wakefield Asylum.*
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The class of cases described under the term Paranoia have long been recognized in England, though, perhaps, they have not been studied to such an extent as on the Continent, and have, no doubt, been looked at from a different point of view. The word in Greek literally means “madness;” we find it employed by authors synonymously with the terms Wahnsinn and Verrücktheit, and on account of the confusion existing between these, Mendel, in 1881, and Werner, in 1889, proposed to substitute “paranoia” for them. In this sense it may be taken to mean “systematized insanity,” a definition which covers all classes of paranoia.

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Part 1.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 39 , Issue 164 , January 1893 , pp. 28 - 37
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1893

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Footnotes

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Paper read at the Psychology Section of the B. M. Association, held at Nottingham, July, 1892.

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