unsoundness of mind

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With these words he concludes one of his books: Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even can enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now there is a great difference between inability to manage a man's affairs, and imbecility of mind taken as evidence of unsoundness of mind.

From A Letter to the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect by Haslam, John

The unsoundness of mind that excludes the use of reason is opposed to prudence.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Usually one or more of the direct progenitors, or of the near relatives of the patient, will be found to have manifested unmistakable marks of unsoundness of mind.

From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)

Here a difficulty presents itself, which we must explain at once, namely, how can there be unsoundness of mind at all?

From Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence by Coppens, Charles