The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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... symptoms . The negative symptom is the cause of diminished psychological tension and disintegration . In the context of the hierarchy of mental function , Jackson discerned a shift of balance which he described as follows . " I submit ...
... symptoms . The negative symptom is the cause of diminished psychological tension and disintegration . In the context of the hierarchy of mental function , Jackson discerned a shift of balance which he described as follows . " I submit ...
Page 104
... symptoms are often confusing and complex . A process in the temporal lobe can be concealed for years behind vague psychiatric symptoms " ( 384 , p . 15 ) . In temporal epilepsy we can distinguish between focal and diffuse lesions . The ...
... symptoms are often confusing and complex . A process in the temporal lobe can be concealed for years behind vague psychiatric symptoms " ( 384 , p . 15 ) . In temporal epilepsy we can distinguish between focal and diffuse lesions . The ...
Page 116
... symptoms of the psychotic process ; they are not negative symptoms in Hughlings Jackson's sense , but positive symptoms . Hallucina- tions and delusions are accessory phenomena of psychoses : " The schizophrenic symptoms proper , so far ...
... symptoms of the psychotic process ; they are not negative symptoms in Hughlings Jackson's sense , but positive symptoms . Hallucina- tions and delusions are accessory phenomena of psychoses : " The schizophrenic symptoms proper , so far ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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