The blot upon the brain: studies in history and psychology.

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Author / Creator:Ireland, William W. (William Wotherspoon), 1832-1909
Imprint:New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1886.
Description:viii, 374 p. 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3266010
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Notes:Several of the papers first appeared in the Journal of mental science, and in Brain. cf. Pref.
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Table of Contents:
  • On hallucinations, especially of sight and hearing
  • The hallucinations of Mohammed, Luther, and Swedenborg
  • On the character and hallucinations of Joan of Arc
  • The insanity of power
  • The history of the hereditary neurosis of the royal family of Spain
  • On St. Francis Xavier, the apostle of the Indies
  • On fixed ideas
  • Folie à deux-a mad family
  • Unconscious cerebration
  • Thought without words and the relations of words to thought
  • Left-handedness and right-headedness
  • On mirror-writing
  • On the dual functions of the double brain.