MENTAL CONFUSION. - A characteristic state proper to amentia (v.), following acute and chronic intoxications or the severe ideational disorder produced by violent emotional traumas. Ideas lose their clarity or their relations of logical correlation, becoming linked to one another through bonds of simple contiguity. The activity of reasoning and criticism is more or less abolished, so that mental activity often unfolds in conditions of absurdity similar to those of a dream, to the point of a dissociation of the personality such as to abolish every form of thought. In the course of such a vague and chaotic mental activity, the individual affected by m. c. is to be considered incapable of entering into a logical relationship with those around him and devoid of moral responsibility.
Bibliography2 worksO. Bumke, Trattato di psichiatria, I, Turin 1927; G. Moslie, Manuale di psichiatria, Rome 1946.
BIBL.: O. Bumke, Trattato di psichiatria, I, Turin 1927; G. Moslie, Manuale di psichiatria, Rome 1946.
De, Ninno Giuseppe. “Confusione Mentale.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 273–274. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/confusione-mentale.
MLA
De, Ninno Giuseppe. “Confusione Mentale.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 273–274. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/confusione-mentale.
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@incollection{ec4_confusione_mentale,
author = {De, Ninno Giuseppe},
title = {Confusione Mentale},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {IV},
pages = {273--274},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1950},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/confusione-mentale}
}
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