The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 157
... activity of the mind . He himself resorted to stimulation of possible activities not yet limited as such by pathological disturbances . This is quite a modern psychiatric principle , which , since the pioneering work of Hermann Simon ...
... activity of the mind . He himself resorted to stimulation of possible activities not yet limited as such by pathological disturbances . This is quite a modern psychiatric principle , which , since the pioneering work of Hermann Simon ...
Page 158
... activity ; it grows on activity and expands as a result of it ; " the activity in which life at least is felt ' to go forwards ' " ( 12 , p . 207 ) ; for otherwise stagnation occurs and life suffocates " in foul air " . Bate very ...
... activity ; it grows on activity and expands as a result of it ; " the activity in which life at least is felt ' to go forwards ' " ( 12 , p . 207 ) ; for otherwise stagnation occurs and life suffocates " in foul air " . Bate very ...
Page 187
... activity of man ; of the fact that the human individual never thinks " nothing " , but is engaged in constant mental activity with thoughts and ideas . Only much later was Freud to accentuate this , and on this basis to develop his ...
... activity of man ; of the fact that the human individual never thinks " nothing " , but is engaged in constant mental activity with thoughts and ideas . Only much later was Freud to accentuate this , and on this basis to develop his ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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