The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... mental capacity can take on a special " Gestalt ” and , if so , in which direction . These questions cannot be an- swered a priori but only empirically , by comparison with obser- vations on other patients . What is it that would not ...
... mental capacity can take on a special " Gestalt ” and , if so , in which direction . These questions cannot be an- swered a priori but only empirically , by comparison with obser- vations on other patients . What is it that would not ...
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... mental function , Jackson discerned a shift of balance which he described as follows . " I submit that disease only produces negative mental symptoms answering to dissolution and that all elaborate positive mental symptoms are the ...
... mental function , Jackson discerned a shift of balance which he described as follows . " I submit that disease only produces negative mental symptoms answering to dissolution and that all elaborate positive mental symptoms are the ...
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... mental hospital for many years until her death ( Johnson paying the expenses ) . This Elisabeth Herne was a daughter of Johnson's aunt Phoebe Harrison - Ford , his mother Sarah Ford's sister . It is possible that Elisabeth Herne's mental ...
... mental hospital for many years until her death ( Johnson paying the expenses ) . This Elisabeth Herne was a daughter of Johnson's aunt Phoebe Harrison - Ford , his mother Sarah Ford's sister . It is possible that Elisabeth Herne's mental ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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