Moral Insanity defined
Aug 18, 2024
The following is James Cowles Prichard’s definition of Moral Insanity.
“madness consisting in a morbid perversion of the natural feelings , affections , inclinations , temper , habits , moral dispositions , and natural impulses , without any remarkable disorder or defect of the intellect or knowing and reasoning faculties , and particularly without any insane illusion or hallucination .”
A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind, page 16, Paragraph 3, Subsection 1
