title: [Mental signs of individual predisposition to madness in French psychiatry of the late XIX-early XX centuries].
abstract: The author analyze conceptions of mental signs of predisposition (diathesis, vulnerability) to non-psychotic and delusional mental disorders of functional origin described in the works of leading French psychiatrists of the late 19th/early 20th centuries (E. Regis, P. Serieux, J. Capgras, E. Dupre, J. Levy-Valensi etc). The descriptions of characteristics of some constitutional types and the differences in the structure of constitutional types and the structure of delusional disorders developed on their basis are compared.
authors.affiliation: Mental Health Research Center, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: N Yu
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Pyatnitskiy
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000266:history*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000266:history*