The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 64
... mood he was resentful of rules and regulations and took pleasure in ' vexing the tutors and fellows ' " ( 31 , vol ... mood in the form of bouts of irritability and dyspho- ria . At such times it was better not to irritate him , for this ...
... mood he was resentful of rules and regulations and took pleasure in ' vexing the tutors and fellows ' " ( 31 , vol ... mood in the form of bouts of irritability and dyspho- ria . At such times it was better not to irritate him , for this ...
Page 101
... mood is always agitated and hurried , with vague anxiety or gloomy and obsessive thoughts , not infre- quently of phobic tinge . Patients can resist this gloomy mood to some extent by finding distraction in activities ( work , talking a ...
... mood is always agitated and hurried , with vague anxiety or gloomy and obsessive thoughts , not infre- quently of phobic tinge . Patients can resist this gloomy mood to some extent by finding distraction in activities ( work , talking a ...
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... mood , but not exclusively in the depressive phases ; he showed them permanently , and this does not suggest a ... moods of depressions . It 150 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
... mood , but not exclusively in the depressive phases ; he showed them permanently , and this does not suggest a ... moods of depressions . It 150 THE MEASURE AND THE CHOICE.
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
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