The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... course the choice of the term psychomotor was confusing when neuro- logists started to use it as a collective term for all seizures not identifiable as " grand mal " or " petit mal " . The neurological designation psychomotor attacks ...
... course the choice of the term psychomotor was confusing when neuro- logists started to use it as a collective term for all seizures not identifiable as " grand mal " or " petit mal " . The neurological designation psychomotor attacks ...
Page 169
... course uses it to mean more than the intellect as such ; perhaps by this word he refers to the total mental personality . Here , too , Johnson advocates the necessity of the resistant principle as a basis of improvement . It is in fact ...
... course uses it to mean more than the intellect as such ; perhaps by this word he refers to the total mental personality . Here , too , Johnson advocates the necessity of the resistant principle as a basis of improvement . It is in fact ...
Page 171
... course not without significance ) . Johnson continued his discourse : " It may be considered as the canker life , that destroys its vigour , and checks its improve- ment , that creeps on with hourly depredations , and taints and ...
... course not without significance ) . Johnson continued his discourse : " It may be considered as the canker life , that destroys its vigour , and checks its improve- ment , that creeps on with hourly depredations , and taints and ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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