The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 90
... tion and anxiety as well as pronounced despair , with the excep- tion of two depressive phases which encompassed striking experiences of derealization , with " strange oblivion " and lapses of memory , " insensibility " and " heaviness ...
... tion and anxiety as well as pronounced despair , with the excep- tion of two depressive phases which encompassed striking experiences of derealization , with " strange oblivion " and lapses of memory , " insensibility " and " heaviness ...
Page 104
... tion , or haemorrhage from a ruptured vessel . Conceivably , something of this kind took place at Johnson's birth . The symptoms which resulted from it were on the one hand involuntary movements of an extrapyrimidal nature ( cho- reo ...
... tion , or haemorrhage from a ruptured vessel . Conceivably , something of this kind took place at Johnson's birth . The symptoms which resulted from it were on the one hand involuntary movements of an extrapyrimidal nature ( cho- reo ...
Page 175
... tion ; but since , however we may debar ourselves from happi- ness , misery will find its way at many inlets , and the assaults of pain will force our regard , though we may withhold it from the invitations of pleasure , we may surely ...
... tion ; but since , however we may debar ourselves from happi- ness , misery will find its way at many inlets , and the assaults of pain will force our regard , though we may withhold it from the invitations of pleasure , we may surely ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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