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Tables of Contents for Embodied Selves
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xiii
6
List of Illustrations
xix
Section I. Reading the Mind
1
64
Introduction
3
5
1. PHYSIOGNOMY
8
17
JOHN CASPAR LAVATER
On physiognomy
8
10
JOHN CONOLLY
The physiognomy of insanity
18
4
CHARLES DICKENS
Our next-door neighbour
22
3
2. PHRENOLOGY
25
24
FRANZ JOSEPH GALL
On the functions of the brain
25
4
GEORGE COMBE
A system of phrenology
29
1
GEORGE COMBE
The constitution of man
29
11
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
The professor
40
1
GEORGE COMBE
Phrenology and education
41
1
ANDREW COMBE
Observations on mental derangement
42
2
ANON
Applications of phrenology
44
1
PAUL PRENDERGAST
A `page' of phrenology
45
1
ANON
The dispositions of nations
46
3
3. MESMERISM
49
16
W. C. ENGLEDUE
A letter from Dr Elliotson
49
2
CHAUNCY HARE TOWNSHEND
Mesmeric sleepwaking
51
2
HARRIET MARTINEAU
The healing power of mesmerism
53
4
ANON
Electro-biology
57
1
ANON
What is mesmerism?
58
1
JAMES BRAID
Hypnotism
59
4
WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER
Mesmerism, scientifically considered
63
2
Section II. The Unconscious Mind and the Workings of Memory
65
98
Introduction
67
6
1. ASSOCIATIONISM AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
73
29
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
A critique of Hartley's associationism
73
3
JOHN ABERCROMBIE
Philosophical, local, and arbitrary association
76
4
WILLIAM HAMILTON
Three degrees of mental latency
80
3
HERBERT SPENCER
On consciousness and the will
83
4
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
Feeling and thinking
87
2
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
Psychological principles
89
2
ENEAS SWEETLAND DALLAS
On imagination
91
2
FRANCES POWER COBBE
On unconscious cerebration
93
2
WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER
The power of the will over mental action
95
7
2. DREAMS
102
21
ROBERT MACNISH
The prophetic character of dreams, and nightmare
102
4
HENRY HOLLAND
On sleep, and the relations of dreaming and insanity
106
4
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
A theory of dreaming
110
3
FRANCES POWER COBBE
Dreams as an illustration of involuntary cerebration
113
2
JAMES SULLY
The dream as a revelation
115
8
3. DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS
123
18
ROBERT MACNISH
The case of Mary Reynolds
123
1
ARTHUR LADBROKE WIGAN
The duality of the mind
124
4
HENRY HOLLAND
On the brain as a double organ
128
2
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
Dreams and double consciousness
130
2
FREDERICK W. H. MYERS
Multiplex personality
132
6
THEODULE A. RIBOT
Periodic amnesia
138
3
4. MEMORY
141
22
DUGALD STEWART
Of memory
141
2
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
The palimpsest
143
2
FORBES BENIGNUS WINSLOW
The psychology and pathology of memory
145
3
ENEAS SWEETLAND DALLAS
The hidden soul
148
2
FRANCES POWER COBBE
The fallacies of memory
150
4
WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER
Of memory
154
3
HERBERT SPENCER
Organic memory
157
3
SAMUEL BUTLER
Life and habit
160
3
Section III. The Sexual Body
163
62
Introduction
165
4
1. DEFINING WOMANHOOD
169
15
JOHN GIDEON MILLINGEN
The passions, or mind and matter
169
1
ANON
Woman in her psychological relations
170
6
THOMAS LAYCOCK
Mind and brain
176
3
WILLAM ACTON
Want of sexual feeling in the female
179
5
2. THE UTERINE ECONOMY
184
25
(a) HYSTERIA
184
15
JOHN CONOLLY
Hysteria
184
3
THOMAS JOHN GRAHAM
Early marriages of excellent tendency
187
1
THOMAS LAYCOCK
The nervous diseases of women
188
2
ROBERT BRUDENELL CARTER
Pathology and treatment of hysteria
190
3
F. C. SKEY
The mimicry of hysteria
193
4
HORATIO BRYAN DONKIN
Hysteria
197
2
(b) MENSTRUATION AND PUBERTY
199
10
GEORGE MAN BURROWS
Menstruation and the female constitution
199
2
CHARLES LOCOCK
The pathology of menstruation
201
2
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE
Advice to a wife
203
2
HENRY MAUDSLEY
Insanity of pubescence
205
1
CLIFFORD ALLBUTT
Gynaecological tyranny
206
3
3. MASCULINITY AND THE CONTROL OF SEXUALITY
209
16
WILLIAM ACTON
Disorders in childhood and youth
209
6
ROBERT P. RITCHIE
A frequent cause of insanity in young men
215
2
GEORGE DRYSDALE
The evils of abstinence and excess
217
5
JAMES PAGET
Sexual hypochondriasis
222
3
Section IV. Insanity and Nervous Disorders
225
60
Introduction
227
4
1. MORAL MANAGEMENT AND THE RISE OF THE PSYCHIATRIST
231
20
SAMUEL TUKE
Moral treatment at the Retreat
231
1
ANDREW WYNTER
Lunatic asylums
232
1
JEAN ETIENNE ESQUIROL
Mental maladies
233
2
JOHN CONOLLY
The non-restraint system
235
2
CHARLES DICKENS
A curious dance round a curious tree
237
1
ANON
The cure of sick minds
238
2
JOHN CONOLLY
Passion and reason
240
3
JOHN BARLOW
The power of self-control
243
3
JOHN PERCEVAL
The treatment of a gentleman in a state of mental derangement
246
3
G. MACKENZIE BACON
The writing of the insane
249
2
2. MONOMANIA, MORAL INSANITY, AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
251
34
JAMES COWLES PRICHARD
Forms of insanity
251
5
JEAN ETIENNE ESQUIROL
Monomania
256
6
ALEXANDER MORISON
The physiognomy of mental diseases
262
3
WILLIAM BENJAMIN CARPENTER
The progress of monomania
265
1
HENRY MAUDSLEY
A case of moral insanity
266
3
FORBES BENIGNUS WINSLOW
The mysteries of the inner life
269
4
JOHN CHARLES BUCKNILL
Insanity and criminal responsibility
273
2
HENRY MAUDSLEY
The manufacture of lunatics and criminals
275
5
ANDREW WYNTER
The borderlands of insanity
280
2
GEORGE HENRY SAVAGE
Moral insanity
282
3
Section V Heredity, Degeneration, and Modern Life
285
104
Introduction
287
6
1. NERVOUS ECONOMIES: MORBIDITY AND MODERNITY
293
10
CHARLES TURNER THACKRAH
Merchants and master manufacturers
293
2
ANDREW WYNTER
Lunacy on the increase
295
2
HENRY MAUDSLEY
On the causes of insanity
297
3
CHARLES HENRY FELIX ROUTH
Overwork
300
3
2. CONCEPTS OF DESCENT AND DEGENERATION
303
19
CHARLES DARWIN
Comparison of the mental powers of man and animals
303
3
THEODULE A. RIBOT
Heredity and the law of evolution
306
2
ERNST HAECKEL
Ontogeny and phylogeny
308
3
EDWIN RAY LANKESTER
Degeneration, a chapter in Darwinism
311
5
AUGUST WEISMANN
On heredity
316
3
T. H. HUXLEY
Evolution and ethics
319
3
3. INHERITED LEGACIES: IDIOCY AND CRIMINALITY
322
13
ANON
Idiots again
322
4
HENRY MAUDSLEY
Idiocy
326
4
FRANCIS GALTON
Criminals and the insane
330
2
HAVELOCK ELLIS
Criminal heredity
332
3
4. CHILDHOOD
335
17
JAMES CRICHTON-BROWNE
Psychical diseases of early life
335
3
JAMES CRICHTON-BROWNE
Brain-forcing
338
3
JAMES SULLY
Babies and science
341
3
JAMES SULLY
Childhood and evolution
344
2
GEORGE ROMANES
The growth of self-consciousness
346
4
HAVELOCK ELLIS
The child as criminal
350
2
5. RACE AND HYBRIDITY
352
21
JAMES COWLES PRICHARD
Species and varieties
352
4
ROBERT KNOX
The physiological laws of race
356
4
PIERRE PAUL BROCA
On hybridity
360
4
HENRY MAUDSLEY
Cerebral development
364
2
CHARLES DARWIN
The races of man
366
4
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
The limits of natural selection
370
3
6. SEX IN MIND AND EDUCATION
373
16
HERBERT SPENCER
Elements of feminine attraction
373
1
T. H. HUXLEY
Emancipation -- black and white
374
3
CHARLES DARWIN
Difference in the mental powers of the two sexes
377
2
HENRY MAUDSLEY
Sex in mind and in education
379
1
ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON
Reply to Maudsley
379
5
GEORGE ROMANES
Mental differences between men and women
384
5
Notes on Authors
389
24
Bibliography
413
10
Index
423