Excerpt from Text-Book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners and Students The author's object is to bring cases demonstrated at the clinic into the general perspective of psychiatry, and to enable the student to fill up the gaps which the clinic must necessarily omit in the limited time given. It is readily understood that in this volume clinical histories could not be included. It 'is especially true of psychic diseases, as well as of ailments included in the general study of medicine, that clinical histories do not give an actual picture of the dis ease to him who would learn to know it. Clinical instruction alone can teach this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.