Item #97316 A New View of Insanity. The Duality of the Mind, proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and shown to be essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix: 1. On the Influence of Religion on Insanity. 2. Conjectures on the Nature of the Mental Operation. 3. On the Management of Lunatic Asylums. Arthur Ladbroke WIGAN.
A New View of Insanity. The Duality of the Mind, proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and shown to be essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix: 1. On the Influence of Religion on Insanity. 2. Conjectures on the Nature of the Mental Operation. 3. On the Management of Lunatic Asylums
A New View of Insanity. The Duality of the Mind, proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and shown to be essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix: 1. On the Influence of Religion on Insanity. 2. Conjectures on the Nature of the Mental Operation. 3. On the Management of Lunatic Asylums
A New View of Insanity. The Duality of the Mind, proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and shown to be essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix: 1. On the Influence of Religion on Insanity. 2. Conjectures on the Nature of the Mental Operation. 3. On the Management of Lunatic Asylums
A New View of Insanity. The Duality of the Mind, proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and shown to be essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix: 1. On the Influence of Religion on Insanity. 2. Conjectures on the Nature of the Mental Operation. 3. On the Management of Lunatic Asylums

A New View of Insanity. The Duality of the Mind, proved by the Structure, Functions, and Diseases of the Brain, and by the Phenomena of Mental Derangement, and shown to be essential to Moral Responsibility. With an Appendix: 1. On the Influence of Religion on Insanity. 2. Conjectures on the Nature of the Mental Operation. 3. On the Management of Lunatic Asylums

London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844 (with the preface dated November).

Octavo, xii, 459 pages.

Contemporary blind-ruled binder's cloth with the title 'Revised Duality' on the spine; this is a unique copy, heavily revised by the author for a possible second edition. His death within three years of the publication of the first edition put paid to this, and the item has remained in family hands to this day.

There are corrections, deletions and additions to all but 50 of the 471 pages in the book. On 30 pages, additional material is supplied on tipped-in pieces of paper; in several instances, this amounts to several pages. Anne Harrington, in her scholarly work, 'Medicine, Mind, and the Double Brain: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Thought (Princeton University Press, 1989: pages 22-29), critically discusses Arthur Ladbroke Wigan (circa 1785-1847, an English general practitioner) and this book, 'which resulted from twenty-five years of pondering ... and can fairly be considered the climax of the pre-1860 period of thought on the double brain. At the same time, its author's passionate claims to have opened a new chapter in the history of neurology, to have made a physiological discovery comparable in its importance and originality to Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood, must be treated with a certain amount of polite skepticism'. However, 'Our understanding of the ethical and pedagogical aspects of Wigan's work is enhanced by realizing that this doctor lived and worked during a time in British social history when the medical profession's newly won jurisdiction of the insane was being threatened by the rise of a new, nonmedical perspective on madness ... That alternative view saw insanity less as a somatic complaint having its source in some sort of brain dysfunction than as a "moral" defect that could be treated through the inculcations of habits of self-control.... [Wigan's book] offered physicians an alternative and a considerably more ingenious neurological framework within which the efficacy of a moral approach to the prevention and treatment of insanity could be at once accepted and explained "medically"'.

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