A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, Vol. 2: Giving the Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology With the ... Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland - Softcover

Tuke, Daniel Hack

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ISBN 10: 133113014X ISBN 13: 9781331130147

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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, Vol. 2: Giving the Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology With the Symptoms, Treatment, and Pathology of Insanity and the Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland

Amendment Orders and Certificates. - (sec. 34) Orders and certificates, if in any respect incorrect or defective, may be amended within fourteen days next after the reception of the patient with the sanction of one of the commissioners and (in the case of a private patient) the consent of the judicial authority by whom the order for the reception of the lunatic may have been signed, and if the com missioners deem any such certificate to be incorrect or defective, if it be not amended to their satisfaction within fourteen days, any two of them may, if they think fit, make an order for the patient's discharge.

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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine, Vol. 2: Giving the Definition, Etymology and Synonyms of the Terms Used in Medical Psychology With the Symptoms, Treatment, and Pathology of Insanity and the Law of Lunacy in Great Britain and Ireland

In some cases strongly infanticidal impulses arise. We have never met a man insanely jealous of his offspring.

The last form of insane jealousy to which we refer is that in reference to friends. Here again the disorder is mostly a feminine one.

Women believe that influences arc at work to loosen the bauds of established friendship; they dwell on the slightest signs of want of affection and magnify them. These cases are more frequent in middle-aged, single women who have poured out their affection upon some female friend. These women-friendships have something peculiar in them, the relationships being often emotional and associated with unhealthy mutual self-analysis. A gradual change in this relationship may lead to passionate jealousy, with fancies that the once loved one has become influenced against, and believes all sorts of moral evils of, her friend.

Such jealousy may lead to violent hatred and to acts of passion. We have knower the idol attacked and seriously damaged.

To sum up. Jealousy as a symptom of insanity may occur in men and women, and may be the chief among other symptoms of mental disorder; or it may be the residuum of a more or less acute attack of insanity, a form of monomania.

It may affect the marital, the parental, or the social relationships.

It may occur in the single or married; it is more common in women; it may he connected with age and loss of power, or with the climacteric period. It is a frequent accompaniment of alcoholic intemperance. It has no special import as a symptom, but it often leads to homicidal or suicidal acts.

The treatment depends on general conditions, but must generally be of the so-called moral kind, such as change of surroundings and companionship, rather than medicinal. Geo. H. Savage.

Jerks, Jerkers. - A name given to the hysterical form of maniacal excitement in which the patients went through a pantomimic performance, jerking, twisting, and contorting their bodies into all manner of shapes. It was due to the religions enthusiasm prevalent in some of the American States in 179$-1805, consequent on the extravagances of revival preaching.

Jews. (See Israelites.)

Joints, Hysterical Affections Of. - A mimicry of severe disease of a joint, described by Charcot, generally the knee or hip, occurring in a person of hysterical disposition. The main symptoms complained of are pain and difficulty of movement; the former is always described as most acute, and with it there is associated an abnormal degree of cutaneous hyperӕsthesia. There is no heat, redness or swelling of the part, and the concurrent deformity, though simulated, shows a marked difference from the ordinary abnormal conformation of the joint seen in hip disease, &c. Occasionally there is some cutaneous hyperӕmia and some crepitation on passive movement of the joint, but there is never any rise of temperature, or effusion into the joint-cavity. (See Hysteria.)

Judge (Insanity Of). - A non compos ought not to sit as a judge; but it is laid down in Brooke's "Abridgement'' (fo. 258, 7) that should such a case occur, the fines, judgments and other records taken before him would be good ; but it is otherwise as regards matters in fail (i.e., by deed or writing), which might be avoided by a person of non-sane memory. Since the Act of Settlement, the judges of the Superior Courts hold office quamdiu se bene gesserint and are not removable except upon an address to the Crown by both Houses of Parliament.

A. Wood Renton.

Judgment (Fr. Jugement, from juger, to judge; from Lat. Judico, I decide). An intellectual operation, by which the characteristics of ideas or facts presented to th

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