On man's power over himself to prevent or control insanity1843 - 120 pages |
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Page 53 - I afterwards endeavoured, at my own pleasure, to call forth phantoms of several acquaintance, whom I for that reason represented to my imagination in the most lively manner, but in vain. — For however accurately I pictured to my mind the figures of such persons, I never once could succeed in my desire...
Page 53 - The figure of the deceased person never appeared to me after the first dreadful day ; but several other figures showed themselves afterwards very distinctly ; sometimes such as I knew, mostly, however, of persons I did not know...
Page 45 - ... the most effectual modes of controlling or preventing it. The best view of it we find is that given by the Rev. J. Barlow, late Secretary of the Royal Institution, in a small work " On Man's Power over Himself to Prevent or Control Insanity." The principal position contended for by this author is, " that the difference between sanity and insanity consists in the degree of self-control exercised by the individual.
Page 56 - During one part of this disease, after the disappearance of this stationary phantom, I had a very singular and amusing imagery presented to me. It appeared as if a number of objects, principally human faces or figures, on a small scale, were placed before me, and gradually removed, like a succession of medallions. They were all of the same size, and appeared to be all situated at the same distance from the face.
Page 52 - I observed these phantoms with great accuracy, and very often reflected on my previous thoughts, with a view to discover some law in the association of ideas, by which exactly these or other figures might present themselves to the imagination.
Page 53 - The phantasms appeared to me in every case involuntarily, as if they had been presented externally, like the phenomena in nature, though they certainly had their origin internally ; and at the same time I was always able to distinguish with the greatest precision phantasms from phenomena. Indeed, I never once erred in this, as I was in general perfectly calm and selfcollected on th"; occasion.
Page 51 - At ten o'clock in the forenoon my wife and another person came to console me : I was in a violent perturbation of mind, owing to a series of incidents which had altogether wounded my moral feelings, and from which I saw no possibility of relief, when suddenly I observed, at the distance of ten paces from me, a figure — the figure of a deceased person. I pointed at it, and asked my wife whether she did not see it. She saw nothing, but being much alarmed, endeavored to compose me, and sent for the...
Page 52 - I was alone when this happened ; a circumstance which, as may be easily conceived, could not be very agreeable. I went therefore to the apartment of my wife, to whom I related it. But thither also the figure pursued me. Sometimes it was present, sometimes it vanished; but it was always the same standing figure.
Page 52 - ... from which I saw no possibility of relief, when suddenly I observed at the distance of ten paces from me a figure—• the figure of a deceased person. I pointed at it, and asked my wife whether she did not see it. She saw nothing; but being much alarmed, endeavoured to compose me, and sent for the physician. The figure remained some seven or eight minutes, and at length I became a little more calm...
Page 45 - be as wild, and perhaps as frightful in their consequences as those of any madman. But the man of strong mind represses them, and seeks fresh impressions from without, if he finds that aid needful ; the man of weak mind yields to them, and then he is insane.