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Psychology – Psychiatry BROUSSAIS (François-Joseph-Victor)
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161
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Psychology – Psychiatry BROUSSAIS (François-Joseph-Victor)
O…
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
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Description
Psychology – Psychiatry
BROUSSAIS (François-Joseph-Victor)
On Irritation and Insanity. A work in which the relationship between the physical and the mental is established on the basis of physiological medicine. Paris, Mademoiselle Delaunay; Brussels, Lib. Médicale Française, 1828.
In-8; scattered small pinholes in places.
½ black calfskin of the period, spine with faux raised bands, gilt title and fillets, blind-stamped metal tools between panels, marbled edges. A fine copy.
First edition.
Here, Broussais sets out his physiological doctrine, developed in opposition to the ideological medical doctrine founded by Pinel, and marks a methodological turning point in nineteenth-century medicine. Broussais rejects all nosography in mental medicine as elsewhere; for him, irritation is the cause of madness.
The author takes up Cabanis’s thesis. Mental disorders are due to primary cerebral irritation, of psychological or sympathetic origin, linked to stomach disorders.
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