| dc.contributor.author | Murray, Helen Sara Euphemia | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-02-15T14:14:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-02-15T14:14:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1935 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33344 | |
| dc.description.abstract | | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The schizophrenic problem is a many -sided
one and easily the most outstanding and important of
this era. In the field of preventive psychiatry it
offers many complexities and difficulties. The funda-
-mental concepts of medical science are inadequate to
its full understanding - an inadequacy that may be due
to their impersonality.
The study of mental disorders in general is
to -day a very complicated one: one may consider ex-
-elusively the principles which dominate the study of
the organic psychoses, or use the point of view which
has thrown so much light on hysteria and the other
psychoneuroses or try to correlate both. Symptoms
may be considered as defects or anomalies dependent on
some structural or toxic damage to the nervous system,
or each symptom and syndrome may be regarded as possibly
having some significance, and as being part of an
attempted adjustment to a life situation. The one
attitude does not necessarily exclude but should
supplement the other. A symptom may have its origin
in certain hereditary structural or toxic factors,
while at the same time it may be utilised for adaptive
purposes: the severity and duration of the
symptom may only be intelligible in the light of the
actual situation and of the strivings of the individual
Despite the fact that schizophrenia has been
known under one or other name for centuries, the natur
of the disorder, even at the descriptive level, remain
in no small measure yet to be determined. The pro -.
-gress made in the study of the psychoneuroses
stimulated a revival of the study of the functional
psychoses, and the stimulus given to this revival by
the formulations of Adolf Meyer and of Jung on the
schizophrenic group has done much to direct the work
of the last two decades.
The technical difficulties in the accurate
analysis of material are considerable and while the
main principles were clearly outlined twenty years ago
the schizophrenic group of psychoses is by no means
easy to delimit, and there is no general consensus of
opinion as to the exact criteria which entitle a case
to be included in this group. It has been divided
into four sub -groups by Kraepelin (1), (1) simple,
(2) hebephrenic, (3) catatonic, (4) paranoidal. | en |
| dc.publisher | The University of Edinburgh | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Annexe Thesis Digitisation Project 2019 Block 22 | en |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | | en |
| dc.title | Schizophrenia: a survey of the problem with the results of treatment | en |
| dc.type | Thesis or Dissertation | en |
| dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | en |
| dc.type.qualificationname | MD Doctor of Medicine | en |
