The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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A Pathographic Essay on Samuel Johnson Ernst Verbeek. so - called psychomotor epilepsy , the entire field of epileptic manifestations was explored again , and this led to radical revisions which have not yet been concluded . These ...
A Pathographic Essay on Samuel Johnson Ernst Verbeek. so - called psychomotor epilepsy , the entire field of epileptic manifestations was explored again , and this led to radical revisions which have not yet been concluded . These ...
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... epileptics . II . Epileptic depressions can be endogenous as well as exo- genous ( e.g. in temporal epilepsy ) . This is why there is frequently no family history of depressions . 12. Patients with epileptic depressions often speak ...
... epileptics . II . Epileptic depressions can be endogenous as well as exo- genous ( e.g. in temporal epilepsy ) . This is why there is frequently no family history of depressions . 12. Patients with epileptic depressions often speak ...
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... epileptic disturbances , therefore , were acquired in this case rather than hereditary . It was initially believed that the personality characteristics of epileptic patients could be en- countered only in epilepsy of hereditary origin ...
... epileptic disturbances , therefore , were acquired in this case rather than hereditary . It was initially believed that the personality characteristics of epileptic patients could be en- countered only in epilepsy of hereditary origin ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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