A note on mental peculiarities as symptoms in stuttering

Abstract

Studies the ways in which the mental make up of a stutterer differs from that of a non-stutterer. Based on the norm, the stuttering cases were separated into two distinct classes - (1) those with a high-strung shrinking nature, with confused thoughts dominated by fear and having hasty, inhibited speech and (2) those who were phlegmatic, having no thoughts waiting to be expressed, thus making no attempt to speak. Peculiarities found in the study of 10 cases were discussed. Concludes that stuttering forces the patient to perform numerous peculiar things which are wanting in normal people. These could be classed as symptoms of stuttering which disappear when the troubles in life disappear. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)