L. A. Landau. About paranoia among the mentally ill hard labor. Yuriev. 1910

Abstract

In his views on the essence of paranoia, the author agrees with that group of psychiatrists who consider paranoia to be a secondary disease and see the cause of paranoid delirium in defects in the central nervous system that are not currently recognized. In the period when there are already defects in the nervous system, these essentially sick people can commit crimes, which are an expression of their latent illness, but the absence of delirium does not allow recognizing the disease, and such patients go to prison and hard labor. The author observed paranoid convicts on about. Sakhalin.

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