The Principles of Medical Psychology Being the Outlines of a Course of Lectures
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667. Subsequently (p. 776) the purpose of cure is declared to be attained " when the lunatic has been brought to possess complete self-knowledge and self-control. " Who, in the full possession of health, can boast of having attained to this ? 318 PATHOLOGY. ideal pleasures) to submit with a certain cheerfulness to the claims of daily life. The return of old inclinations and habits, even though they were bad, has been considered as a crite- rion ; and properly so, so far as they express the rest...ored standard of individual personality ( 121) ; but improperly, when they bring with them the old emotions and passions which co-operated in producing the disease. We cannot be too much on our guard against the dissimulation peculiar to such patients. Ideler, 1 with much tact, here warns us against a too great readiness of the patient to conform to the wishes of the physician; also, against a certain uniformity of expression, which indicates phrases learnt by rote without having any meaning attached to them; and advises that great attention should be paid, not only to the language, but also, and indeed chiefly, to the actions of the convalescent.
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