The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... degenerative personality ( 339 ) is that of a type with a pathological function . Very deliberately he separates the degenerative personality from the degeneration - psychoses : a group of atypical endogenous psy- choses . Hamer ( 324 ) ...
... degenerative personality ( 339 ) is that of a type with a pathological function . Very deliberately he separates the degenerative personality from the degeneration - psychoses : a group of atypical endogenous psy- choses . Hamer ( 324 ) ...
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... degenerative personalities are not uncommon among artists , but it is an error to regard the degenerative personality as the prototype of the artistic , creative individual . Hugenholtz contradicts himself when , on the one hand , he ...
... degenerative personalities are not uncommon among artists , but it is an error to regard the degenerative personality as the prototype of the artistic , creative individual . Hugenholtz contradicts himself when , on the one hand , he ...
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... degenerative disposition . The disintegrative tendency , however , comes under the heading of the consequences of the congenital brain lesions which manifested themselves in epileptic phenomena and extra- pyramidal involuntary movements ...
... degenerative disposition . The disintegrative tendency , however , comes under the heading of the consequences of the congenital brain lesions which manifested themselves in epileptic phenomena and extra- pyramidal involuntary movements ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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