The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 70
... lived in a chaotic home and handled his books so carelessly and negligently that they looked the worse for wear . I shall revert to this subject later in this book , in the part dealing with differential diagnosis . His Bohemian life ...
... lived in a chaotic home and handled his books so carelessly and negligently that they looked the worse for wear . I shall revert to this subject later in this book , in the part dealing with differential diagnosis . His Bohemian life ...
Page 74
... lived with her mother - in - law . What happened during the years her husband spent with Richard Savage in the darker parts of London , without a roof over his head ? Why was he not with his wife ? Hawkins ( 106 , p . 86 , 89 ; see also ...
... lived with her mother - in - law . What happened during the years her husband spent with Richard Savage in the darker parts of London , without a roof over his head ? Why was he not with his wife ? Hawkins ( 106 , p . 86 , 89 ; see also ...
Page 138
... lived at the very edge of psychotic disintegration . " To Johnson , whose supreme enjoy- ment was the exercise of his reason , the disturbances or obscu- ration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded " , wrote Boswell rightly ...
... lived at the very edge of psychotic disintegration . " To Johnson , whose supreme enjoy- ment was the exercise of his reason , the disturbances or obscu- ration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded " , wrote Boswell rightly ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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