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Communicated Insanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Arthur W. Wilcox
Arthur W. Wilcox*
Affiliation:
County Asylum, Hatton
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But why the term communicated? Is insanity catching? Such was the question asked by this Journal some five years ago referring to a case of so-called communicated insanity mentioned in a county asylum report. In this article I shall endeavour to bring evidence to show that in some few cases apparently it may be so.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 56 , Issue 234 , July 1910 , pp. 480 - 485
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1910 

References

1 Brain, vol. 10, 1888, p. 408.Google Scholar
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