"Mutism" Quotes from Famous Books
... pre-eminently in psychasthenia. { Tics Disorders / in many borderland cases; of < in the hypersensitive as often the only expression Will of any neuropathic tendency. { Distractibility { as in hypomania and frequently in hysteria. { Negativism { as in catatonia. { Mutism { as in catatonia. { Compulsive acts { as in psychasthenia, hysteria, etc. { Psychomotor overactivity (volition unable to check) { as in mania. { Psychomotor retardation (volition unable to energize) as ... — Applied Psychology for Nurses • Mary F. Porter
... the savants, but not quite to mutism: she conversed modestly, diffidently; not without effort, but with so true a sweetness, so fine and penetrating a sense, that her father more than once suspended his own discourse to listen, and fixed on her an eye of ... — Villette • Charlotte Bronte |