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Assuming that the novel can furnish quasi-scientific evidence as to the plausibility of certain psychological theories, with what interpretations in abnormal psychology is Dostoevsky in closest accord?
The Mind of Dostoevsky.
Psychoanalytic Interpretations of His Characters.
Case-Studies from the Novels, in the light of psychiatry and psychopathology.
Clinical Cases: Epilepsies, Senile Dementia, Hysterias.
Psychopaths.
The Bearing of Dreams.
Summary and Critical Conclusions.
Dostoevsky's epileptoids accord to the accounts of Kraepelin and Rosanoff; his hysterics fit the pattern described by Charcot and Grasset; the erotomanias are like those which Trelat observed; Raskolnikov's is a case of autistic personality, as Rosanoff portrays it; Stavrogin's an instance of what Kraepelin called “moral insanity.” On symptoms and prognosis, then, Dostoevsky accords with the psychiatrists and psychopathologists.