Quotes About Alienists

At first alienists describes this condition as "moral insanity" and those who exhibited the disorder as "moral imbeciles." They later adopted the term "psychopath".

Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing.