The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... frequent than in melancholia . 6. The depressive mood is experienced as a pervading sen- sation coming from outside . 7. In between depressive phases we frequently see : 1 ) dyspho- ric states of irritability with inactivity ; 2 ...
... frequent than in melancholia . 6. The depressive mood is experienced as a pervading sen- sation coming from outside . 7. In between depressive phases we frequently see : 1 ) dyspho- ric states of irritability with inactivity ; 2 ...
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A Pathographic Essay on Samuel Johnson Ernst Verbeek. To be quickly and frequently touched by affective events is characteristic of the sympathetic person . We know of the flemish novelist Willem Elsschot that he frequently had to stop ...
A Pathographic Essay on Samuel Johnson Ernst Verbeek. To be quickly and frequently touched by affective events is characteristic of the sympathetic person . We know of the flemish novelist Willem Elsschot that he frequently had to stop ...
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... frequently inclined to give vent to the fermentations of his mind at the first passages that are opened , and to let his passions boil over upon those whom accident throws in his way . A painful and tedious course of sick- ness frequently ...
... frequently inclined to give vent to the fermentations of his mind at the first passages that are opened , and to let his passions boil over upon those whom accident throws in his way . A painful and tedious course of sick- ness frequently ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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