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On Some of the Varieties of Morbid Impulse and Perverted Instinct

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. C. McIntosh
W. C. McIntosh*
Affiliation:
Perth District Asylum, Murthly
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The various forms under which morbid impulses and perverted instincts present themselves have generally been classed by authors under “Moral Insanity” † and “Emotional Insanity,” † or each has been titled a mania or monomania. Their occurrence is found to be regulated by the degree of civilisation, mode of life–whether in town or country–and the prevailing tendencies of the age, which indelibly stamps them with its characteristic features. The classification adopted in the following pages is that of Professor Laycock, § which leads us first to examine those connected with the nourishment of the being.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 11 , Issue 56 , January 1866 , pp. 512 - 533
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1866 

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