The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 62
... discussed marriage . And finally nine obscure years as a jour- nalist in London , when he wrote anything except that which he should have written . All this , inevitably , must have set its stamp on Johnson's character . It stimulated ...
... discussed marriage . And finally nine obscure years as a jour- nalist in London , when he wrote anything except that which he should have written . All this , inevitably , must have set its stamp on Johnson's character . It stimulated ...
Page 155
... discussed here at length ; suffice it to say that in the eighteenth century significant changes occurred in the field of psychiatric disorders . In this century the word neurosis is first used by the Scottish physician Cullen , with ...
... discussed here at length ; suffice it to say that in the eighteenth century significant changes occurred in the field of psychiatric disorders . In this century the word neurosis is first used by the Scottish physician Cullen , with ...
Page 181
... discussed in several essays ( Rambler nr . 38 , 57 , 179 , 180 , 202 ) . The specific problems inherent in the different phases of human life are touched upon in Rambler nr . 151 , but not discussed profoundly . Nevertheless it is signi ...
... discussed in several essays ( Rambler nr . 38 , 57 , 179 , 180 , 202 ) . The specific problems inherent in the different phases of human life are touched upon in Rambler nr . 151 , but not discussed profoundly . Nevertheless it is signi ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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