Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind /

"Benjamin Rush compiles his observations of many years, drawn from his own study and that of others, outlining one of the first descriptions and treatments for psychiatric disorders in American medicine. He addresses the proximate causes, forms, and symptoms of various forms of mental illness.&...

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Main Author:	Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : John Grigg, 1830.
Edition:	4th ed.
Subjects:	Psychology, Pathological > Early works to 1900. Psychology. Mental illness. Psychology Mental Disorders Psychopathologie > Ouvrages avant 1900. Psychologie. Maladies mentales. psychology. mental disorders. Mental illness Psychology, Pathological Electronic books. Early works Booksellers' advertisements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
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Table of Contents:

Of the faculties and operations of the mind, and on the proximate cause of intellectual derangement
Of its remote, exciting, and predisposing causes
Of partial intellectual derangement, and particularly of hypochondriasis, or tristimania
Of the remedies for hypochondriasis or tristimania
Of amenomania, or partial intellectual derangement accompanied with pleasure, or not accompanied with distress
Of general intellectual derangement
Of the symptoms of mania
Of the different Forms of mania
Of the influence of the moon on mania
Of the remedies for mania
Of manicula
Of manalgia
Of the remedies for manalgia
Of the means of improving the condition of mad people
Signs of a favourable and unfavourable issue of all the forms of intellectual derangement
Usual modes of death from them
Of demence, or dissociation
Of derangement in the will
Of derangement in the principle of faith, or the believing faculty
Of derangement of the memory ; Of the remedies for it
Of fatuity
Of dreaming, incubus, or night mare, andsSomnambulism
Of illusions
Of reverie, or absence of mind
Of derangement of the passions
Of love
Of grief
Of fear
Of anger
Of the morbid effects of envy, malice, and hatred
Of the torpor of the passions
Of the morbid state of the sexual appetite
Of the derangement in the moral faculties.