Reason and Unreason in Insanity
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Discernment, History of psychiatry, Psychiatric pathology, Forensic psychiatryAbstract
The former alienist doctors had already noted that the ‘‘insane’’ can sometimes commit acts of wisdom
and that the reasonable person can occasionally commit acts of madness. The present study recalls three famous
classic French treatises on the civil and penal capacity of the mentally ill and on the power of nuisance of the insane
whose psychic abnormality remains unknown to those around them. They are La folie lucide, by Ulysse Trélat (1861),
La raison dans la folie, by Victor Parant (1888) and La raison chez les fous, by Paul Voivenel (1926).
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