The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 83
... mind res- tored to me , which I have wanted for all this year without being able to find any means of obtaining it " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 115 ) . It is beyond doubt that in 1767 Johnson suffered from protracted mental disturbances ...
... mind res- tored to me , which I have wanted for all this year without being able to find any means of obtaining it " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 115 ) . It is beyond doubt that in 1767 Johnson suffered from protracted mental disturbances ...
Page 87
... mind very near to madness " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 264 ) . And further : " I was yesterday hindered by my old disease of mind " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 302 ) . Johnson indicates one specific day . Evidently this refers to an exacerbation ...
... mind very near to madness " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 264 ) . And further : " I was yesterday hindered by my old disease of mind " ( 131 , vol . I , p . 302 ) . Johnson indicates one specific day . Evidently this refers to an exacerbation ...
Page 143
... mind to find entertainment for itself ... We were in this place at ease and by choice , and no evils to suffer or to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the ...
... mind to find entertainment for itself ... We were in this place at ease and by choice , and no evils to suffer or to fear ; yet the imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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