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Title: Benign Stupors
A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type

Author: August Hoch

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Language: English

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BENIGN STUPORS

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BENIGN STUPORS

_A STUDY OF
A NEW MANIC-DEPRESSIVE REACTION TYPE_

BY

AUGUST HOCH, M.D.

LATE DIRECTOR OF THE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE OF THE
NEW YORK STATE HOSPITALS, WARD'S ISLAND, NEW
YORK. LATE PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY, CORNELL
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE, NEW YORK

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1921

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Copyright, 1921,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and printed. Published July, 1921.

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TO
MY FORMER COLLEAGUES
IN THE
NEW YORK STATE HOSPITAL SERVICE

EDITOR'S PREFACE

A word should be said as to the origin and history of this book. When
the late Dr. Hoch became Director of the Psychiatric Institute of the
New York State Hospitals in 1910, he found there an interest in just the
kind of psychiatric research which it was his ambition to further. His
predecessor, Adolf Meyer, had developed the conception that the
psychoses should be looked on as psychobiological reactions rather than
rigid nosological entities and had inculcated the habit of scrupulously
thorough examination and record of what the patient said and did. Meyer
had broken away from the sterile habit of making diagnoses in accordance
with the set terms used to label symptoms; and his work and that of his
assistants thu