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Cases of Masturbation (Masturbatic Insanity)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1888 

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* Additional somatic disturbances are found in this group, in common with the non-insane sufferers from self-abuse. As these have been already enumerated, they are not recapitulated here.Google Scholar
One patient, aged 39 years, had to struggle with an impulse to kill his brother in the night-time, and another to throw himself in the water in the day-time. The impulse to strike and cut people, particularly children, is common, and occasionally associated with sexual perversion.Google Scholar
* Kahlbaum, , “Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirrsein,” Berlin, 1874.Google Scholar
Kiernan, , “Alienist and Neurologist,” October, 1882. Masturbation is assigned a place in etiology in Cases I. and IV. In Cases I. and IV. the resemblance, both of the associated etiological and clinical features, to my case is very close.Google Scholar
* Op. cit., p. 486.Google Scholar
Clouston divides what most writers call insanity of pubescence or hebephrenia into insanity of adolescence and insanity of pubescence proper.Google Scholar
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