The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... regarded as a direct motor expression of mental activity . Specifically , an expression of mental values in facial configuration , gestures , body posture and gait . Of course the choice of the term psychomotor was confusing when neuro ...
... regarded as a direct motor expression of mental activity . Specifically , an expression of mental values in facial configuration , gestures , body posture and gait . Of course the choice of the term psychomotor was confusing when neuro ...
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... regarded as a positive mental element . If defence " renounces " its " vocation " as an ordering . regulating principle in this hierarchical subordi- nation to the integrative potencies , to follow separatist tenden- cies and turn ...
... regarded as a positive mental element . If defence " renounces " its " vocation " as an ordering . regulating principle in this hierarchical subordi- nation to the integrative potencies , to follow separatist tenden- cies and turn ...
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... regarded with a degree of censure . It is considered rather superficial and " common " , it not pede- strian . Common sense is only too often regarded as implying too much limitation of vision and profundity , and this is why only ...
... regarded with a degree of censure . It is considered rather superficial and " common " , it not pede- strian . Common sense is only too often regarded as implying too much limitation of vision and profundity , and this is why only ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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