Berrios G E
Hist Psychiatry. 2015 Mar;26(1):105-16. doi: 10.1177/0957154X14562300.
The psychiatric aspects of David Hartley's writings have received less attention than the rest of his work. This Classic Text deals with Section VI of his Observations on Man …, namely, the 'Imperfections of the rational Faculty'. Hartley defines madness as an imperfection of reason that can be temporary or enduring. He makes use of his model of mental functioning to differentiate between eight clinical categories of madness, each representing a different pattern of vibrations of the nerves. Hartley developed this model based on Newton's theory of vibrations and, to explain the complexity of mental acts and entities, he combined it with his own version of the mechanism of Association of Ideas borrowed from John Locke. Much work needs to be done to identify the provenance of Hartley's nosology and nosography.
大卫·哈特利著作中的精神病学方面受到的关注比他的其他作品要少。这本经典文本探讨了他的《对人的观察》……的第六部分，即“理性官能的缺陷”。哈特利将疯癫定义为理性的一种缺陷，这种缺陷可能是暂时的，也可能是持久的。他利用自己的心理功能模型区分了八种临床疯癫类别，每一种都代表了神经振动的不同模式。哈特利基于牛顿的振动理论发展了这个模型，并且为了解释心理行为和实体的复杂性，他将其与自己从约翰·洛克那里借鉴来的观念联想机制版本相结合。要确定哈特利疾病分类学和疾病描述学的出处，还有很多工作要做。
