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A Study of Association in Insanity by Kent, Grace Helen
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A word from our supporters: File extension MST | Produced by Lee Dawei, Dave Maddock and Online Distributed Proofreaders A STUDY OF ASSOCIATION IN INSANITY BY GRACE HELEN KENT, A.M. AND A.J. ROSANOFF, M.D. KINGS PARK STATE HOSPITAL, N.Y. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PART I. ASSOCIATION IN NORMAL SUBJECTS. Sec.1. Method of Investigation Sec.2. The Normal Standard Sec.3. The Frequency Tables Sec.4. Normal Associational Tendencies Sec.5. Practical Considerations Sec.6. An Empirical Principle of Normal Association PART II. ASSOCIATION IN INSANE SUBJECTS. Sec.1. General Survey of Pathological Material Sec.2. Classification of Reactions Sec.3. Non-Specific Reactions; Doubtful Reactions Sec.4. Individual Reactions; Explanation of Groups and Methods of Application Pathological Reactions Derivatives of Stimulus Words Partial Dissociation Non-Specific Reactions Sound Reactions Word Complements Particles of Speech Complete Dissociation Perseveration Neologisms Unclassified Reactions Normal Reactions Circumstantial Reactions Distraction Incoherent Reactions Sec.5. Order of Preference Sec.6. Errors Involved in the Use of Arbitrary Objective Standards Sec.7. Analysis of Pathological Material Dementia Praecox Paranoic Conditions Epilepsy General Paresis Manic-Depressive Insanity Involutional Melancholia; Alcoholic Dementia; Senile Dementia Sec.8. Pathological Reactions from Normal Subjects Sec.9. Number of Different Words given as Reactions Sec.10. Co-operation of the Subject Sec.11. Summary Acknowledgments INDEX TO FREQUENCY TABLES AND APPENDIX THE FREQUENCY TABLES APPENDIX TO THE FREQUENCY TABLES PART I. ASSOCIATION IN NORMAL SUBJECTS. Among the most striking and commonly observed manifestations of insanity are certain disorders of the flow of utterance which appear to be dependent upon a derangement of the psychical processes commonly termed association of ideas. These disorders have to some extent been made the subject of psychological experimentation, and the object of this investigation is to continue and extend the study of these phenomena by an application of the experimental method known as the association test. Sec. 1. METHOD OF INVESTIGATION. In this investigation we have followed a modified form of the method developed by Sommer,[1] the essential feature of which is the statistical treatment of results obtained by uniform technique from a large number of cases. [Footnote 1: Diagnostik der Geisteskrankheiten, p. 112.] The stimulus consists of a series of one hundred spoken words, to each of which the subject is directed to react by the first word which it makes him think of. In the selection of the stimulus words, sixty-six of which were taken from the list suggested by Sommer, we have taken care to avoid such words as are especially liable to call up personal experiences, and have so arranged the words as to separate any two which bear an obviously close relation to one another. After much preliminary experimentation we adopted the following list of words: 01 Table 02 Dark 03 Music 04 Sickness 05 Man 06 Deep 07 Soft 08 Eating 09 Mountain 10 House 11 Black 12 Mutton 13 Comfort 14 Hand 15 Short 16 Fruit 17 Butterfly 18 Smooth 19 Command 20 Chair 21 Sweet 22 Whistle 23 Woman 24 Cold 25 Slow 26 Wish 27 River 28 White 29 Beautiful 30 Window 31 Rough 32 Citizen 33 Foot 34 Spider 35 Needle 36 Red 37 Sleep 38 Anger 39 Carpet 40 Girl 41 High 42 Working 43 Sour 44 Earth 45 Trouble 46 Soldier 47 Cabbage 48 Hard 49 Eagle 50 Stomach |