| Description | Typescript account of a lecture given by Norman on adolescent i[nsanity], stupor and impulse. The first patient presented suffers from delusions about mesmerism, her case is complicated by her family's belief she is sane and that the doctor and nurses are mistreating her. Norman states this is not uncommon, and that the general public often have a poor opinion of carers of the insane. The second patient, with stupor, is presented only briefly. Norman then moves on to a 'most interesting case', a man admitted the previous day who handed himself into the police as he feared he would harm his wife or children. Norman talks to him at length about his family, work, alcoholism and why he handed himself in.
A manuscript note gives the patients' names.. |