Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849) explains Mental Disorder in an excerpt from his 1839 short story titled, The Fall of the House of Usher.
Peculiar article from 1905 Cleveland Journal titled "Married Men Less Liable to Mental Disorders" eccentrically explains mental disorders, mental derangement, mental disease, and mental digression and scientifically fails to meticulously address the issue of "Married Men."
Poster published in New York : Federal Art Project, between 1936 and 1941 Syphilis may cause heart trouble, blindness, deafness, mental disorders: Have your blood tested.
William Short to Thomas Jefferson, December 23, 1790 "I have just learned that De Cornis is dead--his death said to be owing more to mental than corporeal disorder. His fortune shattered by the revolution was the cause of it."
Mental Disorder in Industry (19--?) by Dr. Robert N. McMurry, a "Brilliant Speaker"
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The origin and historical development of Mental Disorder predates the Pentateuch. The basic element of "madness" and "confusion of mind" can be found in Deuteronomy. Tracing it's linguistic transmission from Hebrew to Greek to Spanish to English, we translate "cabeza de loco" to Mental Disorder. Mental Disorder was tantamount to demon possession during the reign of the European Inquisition. Evil nature was identified, treated, and disposed of by employing
Malleus Maleficarum
, a 1484 manual of instruction on heresy by Jakob Sprenger und Henricus Kramer, two German Friars hired by Maxmillian I, King of the Germans and Emperor of the Roman people.
Giovanni Battista Cibo (Pope Innocent VIII)
sealed the Latin version of the manifesto also called Der Hexenhammer with a Bull. In the religious wake of the last official public witch burning demonstration, asylumdom appeared with a secular host of ambitious alienists, mad-doctors, qualified medical men, and forensic clinical experts. Their inexact science on Mental Disorder proved to be equally as ruthless as their predecessors religious interpretation. The 19th century moral architecture of asylums equated to the dungeons of the inquisition. Popular and public opinon incited civil disorder and the lawful-evil governing authorities changed name once again. As always God-fearing people reject the insolent pretensions of liscensed psychiatrists, quacks, and qualified medical men to exclusive knowledge on Mental Disorder. Are you courageous, strong enough, and spiritually qualified to observe, identify, diagnose, and dispose of: demon possession, heresy, daftness, craziness, lunacy, imbecility, idiotism, insanity, schizophrenia, road rage, manic depression, judicial dysfunction disorder, and Mental Disorder?
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