TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE ....................................................................................................................................................................... XV
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................. 1

PART I: THE THEORY OF AUTOMATISM: A CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTION OF PSYCHOSIS
                     Paul Hriso
       1. The four perspectives in the study of psychosis ............................................................................................ 7
       2. Setting the stage for a semeologic approach .................................................................................................. 13
       3. Psychosis, the original model: General paresis ............................................................................................... 17
       4. Psychotic nosologies .......................................................................................................................................... 23
       5. The unitary psychosis ........................................................................................................................................ 41
       6. A solution to the complexity of psychotic symptomatology: The concept of automatisms ................... 49
       7. Clérambault’s pathogeny of psychosis: Neural networks ............................................................................ 65

PART II: TRANSLATION OF THE WORK GATIAN de CLÉRAMBAULT’S ON AUTOMATISMS
               Translation with abstracts, clinical and theoretical commentaries
                      Paul Hriso
      1. A case of hallucinatory psychosis .................................................................................................................... 87
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1909
      2. Mental automatism and the splitting of the self .............................................................................................. 95
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1920
      3. Psychosis with base of automatism and syndrome of automatism ............................................................ 113
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1927
      4. Absence of paranoid character in the majority of persecuted individuals with hallucinations ............. 119
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1923
      5. The chronic hallucinatory psychoses ............................................................................................................. 125
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1923
      6. Definition of mental automatism ....................................................................................................................... 161
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1924
      7. The chronic hallucinatory psychoses: Analysis, pathogeny ...................................................................... 167
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1924
      8. Excitation and mental automatism .................................................................................................................... 199
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1924
      9. Psychoses with base of automatism (Part 1) .................................................................................................. 203
                     G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1924
             Construction of hallucinatory psychosis said to be systematized .......................................................... 212
             Origin of hallucinations .................................................................................................................................. 213
             The secondary delusional reaction ............................................................................................................... 217
             The seat of parasitic sensations .................................................................................................................... 223
             Ideic and ideo-verbal automatisms ............................................................................................................... 228
      10. Psychoses with base of automatism (Part 2) ................................................................................................ 231
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1926
               Anideism ......................................................................................................................................................... 238
                       Visual anideism ...................................................................................................................................... 238
                       Different forms of anideisms ................................................................................................................ 240
                       Anideism and interference ................................................................................................................... 242
                Derivations .................................................................................................................................................... 243
                Echo of thought ............................................................................................................................................ 247
                Hallucinosis ................................................................................................................................................... 248
                Rudimentary ideation ................................................................................................................................... 250
                Rules of derivation ....................................................................................................................................... 251
               Gradual ideic complication ........................................................................................................................... 252
               Affective interference ................................................................................................................................... 254
               The secondary personality .......................................................................................................................... 256
                         Formation of the secondary personality .......................................................................................... 256
                         Exchanges between the two personalities ....................................................................................... 257
                         Differences between the two personalities ...................................................................................... 259
                         Evolution of the secondary personality ........................................................................................... 262
               Derivation and chronaxia .............................................................................................................................. 263
               Non-integration .............................................................................................................................................. 265
               Nuclear and basal syndrome ........................................................................................................................ 265
               Transitory syndrome of passivity ............................................................................................................... 267
       11. Response to the critiques of M. Ceillier relative to our work .................................................................... 271
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1927
       12. The role of affectivity in chronic hallucinatory psychoses ....................................................................... 279
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1927
       13. Discussions on the report of M. Neyrac regarding mental automatisms ................................................. 289
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1927
                Coherence of the Syndrome ......................................................................................................................... 291
                Neutral phenomenon - the Echo .................................................................................................................. 293
                Organic origin ................................................................................................................................................. 296
                Construction ................................................................................................................................................... 298
      14- Occasional modifying causes of hallucinatory psychoses ........................................................................ 305
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1924, 1927, 1928
      15- Automatism and organicism ............................................................................................................................ 311
             1- A case of post-oneiric mental automatism in a child .............................................................................. 311
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1926
             2- Mental automatism associated to general paresis, epilepsy and encephalitis ................................... 317
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1928
             3- Mechanical syndrome following an epidemic encephalitis ................................................................... 321
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1933
             4- Hallucinatory psychosis: a neurologic entity .......................................................................................... 325
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1934
      16- Auto-constructive psychosis ......................................................................................................................... 329
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1934
      17- Automatism and spiritual delusional beliefs ................................................................................................. 335
             1- Case presentation: the end of a fortune teller .......................................................................................... 335
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1920
             2- Conceptual analysis ..................................................................................................................................... 355
                  Hallucinatory psychosis and spiritual practice ....................................................................................... 355
                  The concept of hallucinability ................................................................................................................... 355
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1930
      18- The role of automatism in the formation of phobia in a persecuted woman ............................................ 363
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1910
      19- The fundamental ‘automatic mechanism’ of certain interpretative delusions:
                           The ‘incoersible spontaneous pseudo-awareness’ ...................................................................... 373
                      G. Gatian de Clérambault - 1933

PART III: CONCEPTUAL SUMMARY & SYMPTOMATIC CATALOGUE OF AUTOMATISMS
         1- The concept of automatism ........................................................................................................................... 387
         2- Classification and description of automatisms ........................................................................................... 391
         3- Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................................... 447
                      Paul Hriso

PART IV: MISCELLANY
          1- Biography of G. Gatian de Clérambault ...................................................................................................... 451
          2- Index of automatisms .................................................................................................................................... 457
                      Paul Hriso

REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................................... 461

SUBJECT INDEX ......................................................................................................................................................... 477