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 in this direction were made by the French psychologists during the latter half of the nineteenth century, culminating in the classical work of Janet. In recent years progress has been rapid, and with the researches of Kræpelin, Freud, and Jung, the psychological conception of insanity has become an accomplished fact.

At the present day, therefore, there are two dominating “conceptions” of insanity, the physiological and the psychological, differing widely in their mode of dealing with the subject, but both alike founded upon the employment of the scientific method.