The Principles of Hughlings Jackson Applied to Psychiatry

The ideas of Hughlings Jackson have decisively influenced the neurological thinking of the last hundred years. Their impact on psychiatry, however, has been negligible, and the organo‐dynamic concept of Henri Ey, in Paris, is the first major and systematic attempt to apply them to psychological disorders. The following is a brief account of this important and stimulating approach. It was intended to publish it at the time of the anniversary of Hughlings Jackson's death, but translation difficulties delayed publication.