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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doaj-30715b1732944f9b8ea039d9d342ef252021-07-02T06:17:28ZengHindawi LimitedBehavioural Neurology0953-41801875-85841992-01-015421521710.3233/BEN-1992-5403A Case of Epilepsy and Psychosis in the Seventeenth CenturyF. Ovsiew0Clinical Neuropsychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, MC 3077, University of Chicago Hospitals, 5841 S. Maryland, Chicago, IL 60637, USAA 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1992-5403 |
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