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W.H.R.Rivers Review of H. Maudsley's 'Pathology of Mind'… (1895)

Dr Kraepelin calls attention to the fact that the mental diseases in their early and most instructive stage of development do not often come under the hands of the physician, or if they do, are not in a condition to make exact investigation practicable, and he proposes to supply this deficiency by investigation of the effects on mental capacity of such influences of fatigue and drugs. These are not only frequent factors in the causation of insanity, but produce even in moderate amounts mental effects which are identical in nature with those of many forms of incipient insanity.
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W.H.R.Rivers Review of H. Maudsley's 'Pathology of Mind'… (1895)

The following extract is a typical example of teaching which is constantly recurring: ‘No one can ever understand the real nature of these examples of decomposed will who, viewing them from the standpoint of mind in disorder, tries to discover a mental explanation of them and to set it forth in the language of psychology. The truth is that psychology has no terms for them, and that its principles exclude their existence.
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W.H.R.Rivers Review of H. Maudsley's 'Pathology of Mind'… (1895)

The systematic investigation of the mental constitution of different individuals is much wanted; it is a line of research which can be best carried out by physicians who are familiar with the differences of physical as well as mental constitution, and this branch of his work alone would justify Prof. Kraepelin in undertaking to issue his series of ‘Psychologische Arbeiten’.
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