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Just as the clinical picture of Affective melancholia—which we derived from experience—is fully explained by assuming an intrapsychic loss [Ed] of function, so we also encounter, albeit less frequently, an acute mental illness that, in all its symptoms, may be derived from an opposite state—of intrapsychic hyperfunction [Ed]. We call it mania, and have an example in the recently presented patient Pr. Let us now consider its individual symptoms more closely.
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Miller, R., Dennison, J. (2015). Lecture 31. In: Miller, ONZM, B.A., B.Sc., PhD., R., Dennison, J.P., M.Sc., B.A., J. (eds) An Outline of Psychiatry in Clinical Lectures. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18051-9_31
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