Continuation and end of the excerpts given masterpiece of French pioneer of cyclothymia, including Peter Kahn thesis was published a century ago! Not only Peter Kahn (Gaston and his master Deny) had recovered and enriched the work of Hecker and Kahlbaum but also brought the concept of "cyclothymic constitution" if fair and consistent with the modern concept "akiskalien" temperaments.
The existence of this work also demonstrates involution of French medicine from the 20s in the field of bipolarity and its spectrum as well as French doctors and Falret Baillarger were the discoverers of the "double madness shape and circular "in 1854. Then we saw the disappearance of the term and its rediscovery in France by Dr. Elie Hantouche almost a century later ...
The concept of incorporation or cyclothymic personality are far more eloquent than bipolarity in my opinion. Especially as the mixed state is so often present in cyclothymia (Read what Kahn described in the following excerpts!). It's actually a tripolarity: Dysthymia or depression, and hyperthymic mixed state.
The Cyclothymia is a depression and a hyperthymic whose fragility and strength lie in the paradoxical nature and disabling. As we said before: there is no free intervals but extreme sensitivity almost always sickly and hyperreactivity. Cyclothymic each differs from each other because the mixing of fluids in contact with an environment is kept clean at all.
I end on the excerpts of the thesis: 
"In commerce, industry, business, the cyclothymic is bold, both leading to several companies. In cons is often inconsistent, making several projects without any finish. (...). The ruling is amended by the unflappable optimism of these patients, who are also inconsistent, wasteful ...(...) In depression there was a lack of inadequate attention by Pulse. In the excitement there are too many elements that seek attention in a given time, and it can not fix. There lack of intensity. " Letter from a patient to Dr. Gaston Deny:
" Since I'm here, should I be considered a patient who still has his reason or patient who does more?.
"But is it the fault of my own will, or rather, as you said yourself, Mr. Doctor, my constitution?
"Myself, if I had the choice, I would have chosen a more quiet nature and less sensitive, and now maybe I would struggle not between madness and reason (...) ".
"Nobody here, except you, Sir, I do believe ill, much less those outside, even my husband (...)".
"For me it's terrible anguish of a brain that feels sink. Under these conditions, how to live among my people, while I myself need a guide and consolation? ".
Evolution:
As we have seen, cyclothymia has therefore modifications of the circular Mood:
a) depression, expansion, depression, expansion.
b) depression, mixed state, depression, mixed state.
c) expansion, mixed state, expansion, mixed state, etc., etc. ...
"Intervals Free does not seem to exist in cyclothymia and mood swings never cease (...). These are waves breaking in turn, undulating surface of disturbed mood (...). We realize that the cyclical nevertheless exists but that the large waves that appear from place to place, are losing sight of the much smaller waves that separate them.
"The Cyclothymic but is undecided whether it using words or guidance, it will come to that - only him was impossible. "
Case of a patient who" told with dignity as if she was going every two months for it to Charenton rest in the truth and not because she was mad. "
" There is a clear predominance of cyclothymia in women (Twenty women, five men).
"Cyclothymia, in the manifestations of the intellectual sphere n not offer the same clinical appearance as it grows from a weak or otherwise in a man of great intelligence "(...)" In the period of excitement, intelligence and even exalted may happen to contain the genius ".
" We can not write about Schumann everything we want, and we refer to well-known life of this genius Cyclothymic to the very interesting communication ... "
" Musset, we have seen, was also a manic dipsomaniac both great and gifted natures (...) In this way, the imbalance of mood far from hampering the inspiration seem almost to promote soaring.
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