The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... condition known as delirium and from his findings developed his theory of negative and positive symptoms . The ... conditions that are together responsible for the occur- rence of the mental disturbance . Birnbaum distinguished several ...
... condition known as delirium and from his findings developed his theory of negative and positive symptoms . The ... conditions that are together responsible for the occur- rence of the mental disturbance . Birnbaum distinguished several ...
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... condition as " compulsive neurosis " . The source of his assertions about Johnson ( that he suffered from ejaculatio praecox , was a nailbiter , etc. ) remains obscure . I have nowhere found any mention of these things . As I pointed ...
... condition as " compulsive neurosis " . The source of his assertions about Johnson ( that he suffered from ejaculatio praecox , was a nailbiter , etc. ) remains obscure . I have nowhere found any mention of these things . As I pointed ...
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... condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel , while the deception lasts , whatever motions would ... conditions ( it is modern phenomenology avant la lettre ) but also to insight into the significance of the ...
... condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel , while the deception lasts , whatever motions would ... conditions ( it is modern phenomenology avant la lettre ) but also to insight into the significance of the ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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