The mind of the injured man / Joseph L. Fetterman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fetterman, Joseph L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nervous system--Diseases.

Nervous system.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL, : Industrial Medicine Book Company, [1943]

Summary:

"To understand apoplexy there must be gauged the heart, the blood vessels, and the nervous impulses implementing both. Nor can one understand the degeneration of spinal tracts, if one be unaware of the parts played in their production by ancient gall-bladder diseases, producing an absence of free hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice; thereby removing an antiseptic "trap" to abnormal bacteria, and intoxicating the organism by these now dwelling in the lower gut. There is need, too, --and in this book it is shown, --for perception of orthopedic surgery and embryology. Lacking the first, the neurologist would be at a loss to appraise properly the extrusion of an intervertebral disc by a sudden ill-adjusted muscular effort, and without the second he would know little of a hemorrhage into an already existing syringal cavity in the spinal cord, and nothing of the activation by a blow, of a testicular teratoma. But the work of this book, which is so simply phrased, goes beyond the gross features of the machine. An attempt is made to explain the springs, --unconscious and conscious, --of the aberrations of function caused by hysteria on the one hand, and malingering on the other; the author has discovered, as well, that the outlook for recovery of an injury of the football field is a good deal better than that of an injury sustained when at work, through slipping on a soapy stairway. For, as I once defined a "compensation neurosis" to a truculent attorney who begged for punishment: "It is a state of mind, born out of fear, kept alive by hope, --and stimulated by lawyers." The author too has weighed well the role of coincidence in the allegation that injury, major and often minor, can precipitate long-distant and far-reaching chronic results"-- Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).

Contents:

Introductory material

Functional anatomy of the central nervous system

Functions of the brain with some psychologic considerations

Diagnosis

Early anatomic changes and associated symptoms in head injury

Late anatomic changes and associated clinical states in head injury

Psychoses

Paresis, tumors, and certain infectious and degenerative states and the relation of trauma to them

Traumatic lesions of the spine and spinal cord

Traumatic lesions of cranial and peripheral nerves

Miscellaneous conditions : traumatic lesions of the pituitary gland ; injury to the nervous system by physical and chemical agents

The symptoms of neuroses

The mechanism and meaning of neuroses

The neuroses associated with trauma

Malingering and psychopathic personality

Treatment

Medicolegal considerations

Neuroses of war.

Notes:

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