A Case of Epilepsy and Psychosis in the Seventeenth Century
A seventeenth-century painter left an account of his seizures, trances and visions; in 1923 Freud commented on this “demonological neurosis” without discussing the seizures. Attention is drawn to the concurrence of epilepsy and psychosis in this early autobiographical source.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
1992-01-01
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| Series: | Behavioural Neurology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1992-5403 |