"Manic-depressive psychosis" Quotes from Famous Books
... progress toward demential end-results in the same proportion as the general run of dementia praecox cases do, whether or not they have come in conflict with the law. Occasionally we also see a case of organic brain disease or manic-depressive psychosis, and in more frequent instances a case of epilepsy. The other, and according to many authorities, by far the most predominant group of mental disorders met with in imprisonment, belongs to the so-called "prison psychoses", and bears definite, unmistakable ear-marks which differentiate it ... — Studies in Forensic Psychiatry • Bernard Glueck |