The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 55
... disorders have undoubtedly enhanced each other in the unfavourable sense . On the other hand there are properties in Johnson that can be ascribed without hesitation to one or other of the mental disorders . Anexample is Johnson's ...
... disorders have undoubtedly enhanced each other in the unfavourable sense . On the other hand there are properties in Johnson that can be ascribed without hesitation to one or other of the mental disorders . Anexample is Johnson's ...
Page 87
... disorders of body , and disturbances of the mind very near to madness " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 264 ) . And further ... disorder , than it had a tendency to insanity ; and without great care might possibly terminate in the deprivation of ...
... disorders of body , and disturbances of the mind very near to madness " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 264 ) . And further ... disorder , than it had a tendency to insanity ; and without great care might possibly terminate in the deprivation of ...
Page 155
... disorders . In this century the word neurosis is first used by the Scottish physician Cullen , with reference to a heterogeneous group of neurological and psychiatric disorders . As used then , it had little to do with the current ...
... disorders . In this century the word neurosis is first used by the Scottish physician Cullen , with reference to a heterogeneous group of neurological and psychiatric disorders . As used then , it had little to do with the current ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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