Citation

Jelliffe SMITHELY. J. Am. Med. Assoc. 1930; 94(18): 1393-1395.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1930, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jama.1930.02710440031010

PMID

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Abstract

A recent striking experience has convinced me that its outlining may not be amiss. It deals with a situation that has been repeated several times in my clinical work. I would also briefly report two other cases of related significance and thus offer a contribution to the conception or idea that not infrequently an acute or even a chronic psychosis may follow the "cure," surgical chiefly, of a longstanding somatic disorder. There are a number of extremely valuable theoretical considerations underlying this general situation, enough in my opinion to justify the fragmentary presentation of these three cases.Case 1.--A colleague asked me to consult with him about "Miss G." She was suffering from a mild agitated depression. She had made one attempt at suicide by illuminating gas and had hovered dangerously near to a window ten stories above the ground. She had been acting queerly only about two or