Catalepsy

"Catalepsy," as some call it -- "hysteria," as others say -- this alone is certain, the same interval always passes; the same change always appears.

The Frozen Deep Wilkie Collins 1856

Catalepsy usually occurs in association with a form of mental illness called Schizophrenia.

A Look at Catalepsy 2008

Catalepsy is a condition in which a person loses their desire to move.

A Look at Catalepsy 2008

This mental condition, Catalepsy differs from cataplexy, which it is often confused with.

A Look at Catalepsy 2008

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Ecstasy, Catalepsy, and Metafiction 2005

Catalepsy reduces the subject to the state of an inflexible corpse; it is characterized by impassibility and muscular rigidity; the subject keeps every position into which the experimenter puts him.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Catalepsy, trance, and lethargy, lasting for days or weeks, are really examples of spontaneously developed mesmeric sleep in hysteric patients or subjects of incipient insanity.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Catalepsy, trance, and lethargy, lasting for days or weeks, are really examples of spontaneously developed mesmeric sleep in hysteric patients or subjects of incipient insanity.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

+ Catalepsy, caused by the contraction of the muscles in the whole or a part of the body.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Catalepsy,, a seizing of the body by some spirit or demon, who holds it rigid.

Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology 1872