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Auto-suggestion and Delusional Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

David Thomson*
Affiliation:
Horton Asylum, Epsom
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The presence of delusions, whether arising primarily or following other mental states, is significant of a faulty cerebral action, yet the co-existence of normal ideas suggests that the morbid process is limited to certain groups of nerve-cells. It is thus reasonable to suppose that many of the nerve-cells associated with ideation are in such cases working normally. There would appear to be “wrong thought centres” or “wrong series of associations” giving rise to delusions.

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 
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