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Cases of so-called Katatonia

1892; Royal College of Psychiatrists; Volume: 38; Issue: 163 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1192/bjp.38.163.551

2514-9946

M. J. Nolan,

Mental Health and Psychiatry

As the following five cases embraced individually in their quasi-cycle the leading features of the three forms of katatonia ( religious expansive, dómonomaniac , and hysterical ) as laid down by Schüle, his nomenclature is adopted in the following notes to indicate the various phases or stages through which they passed. Mickle's division of the latter is not grounded on the clinical aspect of the affection, but is merely a convenient précis of groups of phenomena, which possess an allied psychical or physical basis, but which are met with scattered over the entire course of the malady, following no closer than the stages themselves any definite sequence. The cases came under notice at short intervals, each one differing in its first appearance. They have since admission run an unfavourable course, and with several others have accumulated to form a group quite distinct in its characteristics from the many hundreds of others associated with them, and so gave an opportunity for careful comparison and scrutiny.