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Fantasies of Childhood and Adolescence as a Source of Delusions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

E. Mapother  and
J. E. Martin
E. Mapother
Affiliation:
Long-Grove Mental Hospital, Epsom
J. E. Martin
Affiliation:
Hanwell Mental Hospital
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The subject of the relation of recurring dreams of adult life to that almost inseparable mixture of real experience and fantasy which forms the mental life of the child was dealt with by Rudyard Kipling in The Brushswood Boy, and by George du Maurier in Peter Ibbetson, after a fashion not given to psycho-pathologists. The psycho-analytic school has of late years endeavoured to trace the genesis of the psycho neuroses to aspects of the same period generally considered less attractive. There has, I think, been less effort to establish such a connection in the major psychoses.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 68 , Issue 280 , January 1922 , pp. 33 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1922 

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(2) We have to acknowledge the kindness of Dr. Gilfillan, Medical Superintendent of Colney Hatch, and Dr. Lord, Medical Superintendent of Horton, in providing us with information as to the condition of our patient's mother during the periods she spent at their respective hospitals.Google Scholar

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