The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... suffering from a neurosis . We must first discuss in some detail the classification of the depressions from which Johnson suffered . We must take care to bear in mind the birth trauma , which caused an organic cerebral lesion that ...
... suffering from a neurosis . We must first discuss in some detail the classification of the depressions from which Johnson suffered . We must take care to bear in mind the birth trauma , which caused an organic cerebral lesion that ...
Page 108
... suffered from ejaculatio praecox , was a nailbiter , etc. ) remains obscure . I have nowhere found any mention of these things . As I pointed out earlier , it is nonsense to speak of " alimentary orgasm " , as Hitschmann does with ...
... suffered from ejaculatio praecox , was a nailbiter , etc. ) remains obscure . I have nowhere found any mention of these things . As I pointed out earlier , it is nonsense to speak of " alimentary orgasm " , as Hitschmann does with ...
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... suffered ( she is the only relative known to have suffered from mental disorder ) . We only know that she must have had a chronic psychosis for which she was institutionalized for years . The condition may just as well have been a ...
... suffered ( she is the only relative known to have suffered from mental disorder ) . We only know that she must have had a chronic psychosis for which she was institutionalized for years . The condition may just as well have been a ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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