Title: The unsound mind and the law : a presentation of forensic psychiatry /
Authors: Jacoby, George W., 1856-1940
Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls Co.,
Year: 1918
Subjects: Forensic psychiatry; Insanity (Law); Insanity Defense; Forensic Psychiatry
Contents: Introduction -- I. The general relations of jurisprudence and psychiatry. 1. Historical retrospect -- 2. The notions of mental disorder -- 3. Psychopathic disposition -- 4. Exogenous causes of mental disease -- 5. Mental disorder and responsibility -- 6. The examination of the insane -- II. Psychiatric expertism. 1. Psychoses in general -- II. The neuropsychoses -- III. The psychoses of involution -- 4. The intoxication psychoses -- III. Special anomalies. 1. Hypnosis -- 2. The anomalies of sexual sense