The Correlation of Cause of Death with Type of Insanity

Abstract

In the following investigation an attempt is made to regard the subjects of mental disorder from a synthetic rather than from an analytic standpoint, in other words to envisage the patient as an entity, a complete individual who reacts as a whole to his environment, rather than to look on him as a mere collection of systems, and, in doing so, to pay no heed to his total response. Our present knowledge of mental disease results from skilled work in histological, physiological, biochemical and psychological spheres, and there is thus, of necessity, a tendency among individual workers in the various fields to concentrate their attention almost exclusively on their particular line of work, and so to lose sight of the patient as an individual.