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Cases of Masturbation (Masturbatic Insanity)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 February 2018
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Additional somatic disturbances are found in this group, in common with the non-insane sufferers from self-abuse. As these have been already enumerated, they are not recapitulated here.Google Scholar
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One patient, aged 39 years, had to struggle with an impulse to kill his brother in the night-time, and another to throw himself in the water in the day-time. The impulse to strike and cut people, particularly children, is common, and occasionally associated with sexual perversion.Google Scholar
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Kiernan, , “Alienist and Neurologist,”
October, 1882. Masturbation is assigned a place in etiology in Cases I. and IV. In Cases I. and IV. the resemblance, both of the associated etiological and clinical features, to my case is very close.Google Scholar
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Clouston divides what most writers call insanity of pubescence or hebephrenia into insanity of adolescence and insanity of pubescence proper.Google Scholar
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