The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 79
... indicates that the permanent symptoms started when he was about 20 years of age . From that time on , the periodical disturbances also manifested themselves , in the form of anxious - agitated depressions with marked guilt feelings and ...
... indicates that the permanent symptoms started when he was about 20 years of age . From that time on , the periodical disturbances also manifested themselves , in the form of anxious - agitated depressions with marked guilt feelings and ...
Page 90
... indicated the quality of derealization by writing : “ A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me " , which implies being im- posed from outside : an exogenous origin . And again he indicates this when he writes : " I perceive an ...
... indicated the quality of derealization by writing : “ A kind of strange oblivion has overspread me " , which implies being im- posed from outside : an exogenous origin . And again he indicates this when he writes : " I perceive an ...
Page 185
... indicates that self - confrontation is required which must supply us with new insight if we are to break through the shrouding of our faults by repression and defence in neurosis . He indicates that we should consider the possibility of ...
... indicates that self - confrontation is required which must supply us with new insight if we are to break through the shrouding of our faults by repression and defence in neurosis . He indicates that we should consider the possibility of ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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