A case of epilepsy and psychosis in the seventeenth century.
A seventeenth-century painter left an account of his seizures, trances and visions; in 1923 Freud commented on this "demonological neurosis" without discussing the seizures. Attention is drawn to the concurrence of epilepsy and psychosis in this early autobiographical source.
Clinical Neuropsychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, MC 3077, University of Chicago Hospitals, 5841 S. Maryland, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
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Catatonia; Epilepsy; History of medicine; Organic mental disorders; Psychoanalysis; Psychotic disorders