SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE PSYCHOSES 

 AND NEUROSES 1 



Psychoses in I have emphasized repeatedly in the foregoing pages 

 tWenital 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. Med., 1913, vol. vi, p. 75; idem, 1915, vol. viii, 

 pp. 1, 21, 58; idem, 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. Die., 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. 



