The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 104
... hand involuntary movements of an extrapyrimidal nature ( cho- reo - athetosis ) and on the other hand mental symptoms of a temporal epilepsy without much paroxysm ( apart from the pseudo - hallucination and the sudden states of anxiety ) ...
... hand involuntary movements of an extrapyrimidal nature ( cho- reo - athetosis ) and on the other hand mental symptoms of a temporal epilepsy without much paroxysm ( apart from the pseudo - hallucination and the sudden states of anxiety ) ...
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... hand partly and perhaps precisely because the integrative powers are too feeble and its superim- posed directive position is therefore uncertain , and on the other hand under the emotional pressure of imminent disintegrations signalled ...
... hand partly and perhaps precisely because the integrative powers are too feeble and its superim- posed directive position is therefore uncertain , and on the other hand under the emotional pressure of imminent disintegrations signalled ...
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... hand this overtone enriches his vision , but on the other hand it occasionally deprives him of a correct understanding of the limited potentialities of the neu- rotic as long as the latter must remain on his own . In his psychological ...
... hand this overtone enriches his vision , but on the other hand it occasionally deprives him of a correct understanding of the limited potentialities of the neu- rotic as long as the latter must remain on his own . In his psychological ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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