Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to consciousness in its relation to the self, or to self-consciousness.
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Examples
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Following the method of our former work on somatic and on environmental delusions, we sought in the first instance pure cases of autopsychic delusion-information.
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Their contents might relate to the environment, but their genesis could better be regarded as autopsychic (intrapersonal).
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THE suggestions here put forward concerning personal (autopsychic) delusions are based on material of the same sort as that previously analyzed for a study of somatic and of environmental (allopsychic) delusions.
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The paper deals with delusions of a personal (autopsychic) nature and is one of a series based upon certain statistics of Danvers State Hospital cases (previous work published on somatic, environmental (allopsychic) delusions and those characteristic of General Paresis).
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It is interesting to inquire, accordingly, whether our more obviously autopsychic cases will also be possessed of an unpleasant tone.
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Amidst the other alterations of personality found in paresis, autopsychic delusions are characteristic: indeed allopsychic delusions are conspicuously few in our series.
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A genetic hint from general paresis (frontal site of lesions in cases with autopsychic trend.)
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The residue of 22 cases was subject to analysis and readily divides itself into two groups of 11 cases each, or two groups of normal-looking brain cases having autopsychic delusions and these only are cases which may be termed the "pleasant" and
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Now it was precisely the cases with autopsychic delusions, as well as with profound disorder of personality in general, that showed the brunt of the destructive paretic process in the frontal region.
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SUMMARY Danvers autopsy series, unselected cases1000 Cases with little or no gross brain disease306 Cases listed as having autopsychic delusions106 Cases listed as having only autopsychic delusions50 Cases for various reasons improperly classified13 Cases of general paresis in which gross brain lesions were not observed15 Residue of autopsychic cases22
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