ABSTRACT
Before proceeding with our casuistic material, it may be well to state the methods of our study. We have made only one assumption in our investigations, that the productions, mood and conduct of our patients were somehow related. Our cases are not picked rarities; they represent the routine admissions of State and private institutions and come from all walks of life. If they seem to differ from average manic cases, it is because great pains were taken to make the observations complete. It cannot be urged that these patients stated what they did as a result of suggestion, because we found the same content in cases examined a quarter of a century ago, when psychogenesis was unthought of.
