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The Classification of Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

John Turner
John Turner*
Affiliation:
Essex County Asylum, Brentwood
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Before attempting a classification, it is desirable to define what we exactly mean by insanity. It is not an easy matter. Who is to say where the dividing line is to be drawn between the sane and the insane? The one state passes insensibly into the other, and a division, which may be valid in certain circumstances, may not be so in others.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 58 , Issue 240 , January 1912 , pp. 9 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1912 
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