Citation

Dieckhöfer K, Vogel T. Schweiz. Arch. Neurol. Neurochir. Psychiatr. 1974; 115(2): 337-348.

Vernacular Title

Soziale und forensische Probleme bei der sogenannten Poriomanie - unter

Copyright

(Copyright © 1974, Orell Fussli)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

4469089

Abstract

Following a synopsis of the main bibliography and a number of own cases it could be pointed out that the so-called poriomania is accompanied with punishable acts in about one-third of all cases. An analysis of the different delicts yielded as result a clear preponderance of larcency of money, fraud and embezzlement - in comparison with desertion and absence without official leave. Only 20% of all cases with punishable acts were denounced. In former times, up to the first world war, about a percentage of 74 of all criminal cases in connection with poriomania was exonerated on the erroneous assumption that the behaviour of the so-called poriomania would be caused by epilepsy. About one third of all persons with poriomania are feebleminded. There is a high inclination to fraud, pseudologia, abuse of alcohol and prostitution. An enlarged inclination (15%) to suicide is also remarkable. A familiar accumulation of poriomania does not justify the supposition of an endogenous factor. Therefore criminal acts in connection with poriomania connot be exonerated. The personality of men with poriomania is characterised by unsteadiness, unstableness and velleity.

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