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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEMENTIA PRÆCOX.
possible through complicated analogical conclusions, we observe that the subject can not psychologically free himself from a certain complex. Because he continually associates with this complex and allows all his actions to be constellated by it, there must result a certain reduction of personality. How far the purely psychological influence of the complex reaches in such case we are unable to say at present; we may, however, suppose that the toxin effect plays an important part in the progressive degeneration.
