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Title: Dementia praecox and paraphrenia
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Kraepelin, Emil, 1856-1926 Robertson, George M. (George Matthew), b. 1864
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Livingstone
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^ to wash him a\va\ with musk water. He mustdie, will be shot, beheaded, poisoned by the State, petroleumis poured over him and set on fire, he comes into the ironmaiden, into a vault with toads and broken glass. His houseis blown into the air, his wife is imprisoned, his brother has hisflesh torn off, his family is shot; the patient must drinkthe blood of his relatives. The peculiar sensations ofinfluence lead to the idea that witchcraft and charms are
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Representation of bodily influences. being practised. The patient feels himself hypnotized by amagnet, bewitched, possessed by the god Pluto, surroundedby spirits. A nest of spirits lives in my brain. He hasbeen taken for a telephone post, the telephone goes throijorhhim. ^ Ideas of Influence.—From the examples which havealread>- been given it can be seen that verv often t-U° PSYCHIC SYMPTOMS 29 delusion of influence through external agents is developed ; In a natural body such things do not happen. A patientsketched the picture reproduced in Fig. 2, from which atleast so much can be gathered that in his opinion his per-secutors took the most \aried parts of his body as the pointsof attack for their malevolent importunit). Many patientsare entangled in an inextricable net of the most painfulideas by the feeling of forced and powerless dependence onstrange influences. The following fragment of a letter givessome insight into that kind of train of ideas :— I am in terrible anxie

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