The literature of the past has included self-reports by the mentally ill since before Roy Porter reminded us that their views and experiences constitute an important document for historians of psychiatry. The value of these self-reports can be enhanced if their potential biases and informational power are duly determined. This Classic Text concerns a self-report of a form of periodic madness written by an eighteenth-century Danish vicar. It shows how the same document can be presented in a more or less neutral fashion by a medical historian (Maar) or used as ‘evidence’ for some ‘ontological’ view of madness by a clinician (Rasmussen).

中文翻译：

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“我在 1783 年的疯狂”，作者 CS Andresen (1801)

在罗伊·波特提醒我们他们的观点和经历构成精神病学历史学家的重要文件之前，过去的文献就包括精神病患者的自我报告。如果适当地确定这些自我报告的潜在偏见和信息能力，它们的价值就会得到提高。这部经典文本是关于一种由 18 世纪丹麦牧师撰写的周期性疯狂的自我报告。它展示了医学历史学家 (Maar) 如何以或多或少中性的方式呈现同一文件，或者临床医生 (Rasmussen) 将其用作某些“本体论”疯狂观点的“证据”。