Psychology - Psychiatry - Lot 161

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Psychology - Psychiatry - Lot 161
Psychology - Psychiatry BROUSSAIS (François-Joseph-Victor) On Irritation and Insanity. A work in which the relationship between the physical and the mental is established on the basis of physiological medicine. Paris, Mlle Delaunay; Brussels, lib. Médicale Française, 1828. In-8; scattered small pinholes in places. ½ black calfskin of the period, spine with faux raised bands, gilt title and fillets, blind-stamped metal tools between panels, marbled edges. A fine copy. First edition. Here, Broussais sets forth his physiological doctrine, developed in opposition to the ideological medical doctrine founded by Pinel, marking a methodological turning point in nineteenth-century medicine. Broussais rejects all nosography in mental medicine as elsewhere; for him, irritation is the cause of madness. The author takes up Cabanis’s thesis. Mental disorders are due to primary cerebral irritation, caused by psychological or sympathetic factors, and are related to stomach disorders.
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