SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE PSYCHOSES 

 AND NEUROSES 1 



Psychoses in I have emphasized repeatedly in the foregoing pages 

 th^geTita ! and elsewhere 2 , that the mind is influenced by the 

 functions. metabolism, and therefore by the condition of the organs 

 of internal secretion ; and I have already described what 

 I believe to be the normal attitude of mind in Woman. 

 These views no doubt old enough so far as the general 

 principle is concerned are now being endorsed by 

 alienists who are becoming alive to the fact that insanity 

 may actually depend on the state of the internal secre- 

 tions a fact to which hitherto they have been blind. 



1 It should be evident apparently it has not been, judging by the 

 complaints of certain critics with regard to the brevity of, and 

 omissions from, this section that I am not dealing with the relation- 

 ship between the internal secretions and mental derangements 

 generally, although I have indicated the connexion between the two, 

 but that I am only concerned here with the dependence of certain 

 abnormal psychical states on the reproductive functions and the 

 metabolism. 



Those who wish to make a more complete study of the more 

 general aspects of the relationship between insanity and the internal 

 secretions, should study the work of Mott and his fellow-investigators : 

 (Proc. Roy. Soc. MecL, 1913, vol. vi, p. 75; idem, 1915, vol. viii, 

 pp. 1, 21, 58; idem t 1917, vol. x, pp. 65, 88), and the contributions 

 of T. A. Williams (Internal. Clin. Philadelph., 1916, vol. ii, p. 173) ; 

 H. A. Cotton, E. P. Corson- White and W. W. Stevenson (Journ. Nerv. 

 and Ment. Dis., Lancaster, 1917, vol. xlv, p. 144); C. P. McCord and 

 H. A. Haynes (New York Med. Journ., 1917, vol. cv, p. 583) ; N. C. 

 Borberg (Bibliotek. f. Laeger, Copenh., 1918, vol. ex, pp. 45, 126, 187, 

 231, 338), which will repay careful perusal. 



2 Bell, W. Blair, Arris and Gale Lectures, Lancet, vol. i, pp. 809, 

 937; Proc. Roy. Soc. Med. (Obstet. and Gynacol. Sect.), 1913, vol. 

 vii, p. 47. 



