When Carl Jung states in his notes that the patient died from "paralysis of the insane" what does he mean?
and what is the closest modern equivalent?
Answer:
Jung means that the patient has a rare neuropsychaitric disorder afecting the brain and the Central Nervous System caused from Syphilis. this is rare nowdays but was very prominent in the 19th Century. The patient had eye reflexes, muscular reflex abnormalities, seizures, dementia and neurocerebral deterioration. Patients eventually would become incapacitated and eventually die within three to five years on average.
I would have to read up on the rest of the piece, but off the cuff, I'd say he meant the person died from mental illness, which at the time isolated people. Insanity "paralyzed" an individual by making him/her invisibale to others.
The patient probably was "catatonic", a severe manifestation of psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane or paralytic dementia, is a now-rare neuropsychiatric disorder affecting the brain and central nervous system, caused by syphilis infection. It had been considered a psychiatric disorder before and during the nineteenth century, when it was first scientifically identified and discovered to be extremely common, because the patient usually first sought—or was brought for—treatment because of psychotic symptoms of sudden and often dramatic onset.
it means he dont know whats going on so he slaps on a label calling it paralysis of the insane" paralysis is when body doesnt move and insane means person doesnt thinking like 99% of the population, so its a crazy thinking stiff person.
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Answer:
Jung means that the patient has a rare neuropsychaitric disorder afecting the brain and the Central Nervous System caused from Syphilis. this is rare nowdays but was very prominent in the 19th Century. The patient had eye reflexes, muscular reflex abnormalities, seizures, dementia and neurocerebral deterioration. Patients eventually would become incapacitated and eventually die within three to five years on average.
I would have to read up on the rest of the piece, but off the cuff, I'd say he meant the person died from mental illness, which at the time isolated people. Insanity "paralyzed" an individual by making him/her invisibale to others.
The patient probably was "catatonic", a severe manifestation of psychosis, usually schizophrenia.
General paresis, also known as general paralysis of the insane or paralytic dementia, is a now-rare neuropsychiatric disorder affecting the brain and central nervous system, caused by syphilis infection. It had been considered a psychiatric disorder before and during the nineteenth century, when it was first scientifically identified and discovered to be extremely common, because the patient usually first sought—or was brought for—treatment because of psychotic symptoms of sudden and often dramatic onset.
it means he dont know whats going on so he slaps on a label calling it paralysis of the insane" paralysis is when body doesnt move and insane means person doesnt thinking like 99% of the population, so its a crazy thinking stiff person.
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