The Measure and the Choice: A Pathographic Essay on Samuel JohnsonStory Scientia, 1971 - 231 pages |
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Page 88
... understanding and awareness of the morbid nature of his mental condition . The more agitated forms are associated with pronounced self - accusations and a sense of sinful guilt , the patients are convinced , so to speak , that they 888 ...
... understanding and awareness of the morbid nature of his mental condition . The more agitated forms are associated with pronounced self - accusations and a sense of sinful guilt , the patients are convinced , so to speak , that they 888 ...
Page 101
... understanding of known syndromes not previously regarded as epileptic disturbances ; and they made it possible to define new syndromes which stemmed from already known mental syndromes " . One frequently sees depressive syndromes which ...
... understanding of known syndromes not previously regarded as epileptic disturbances ; and they made it possible to define new syndromes which stemmed from already known mental syndromes " . One frequently sees depressive syndromes which ...
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... understanding , let me add that repression and sublimation need not per sé be defense psychism ; they may belong to the cate- gory of resistance psychisms as , respectively , indirect and direct forms of resistance ) . Is it possible in ...
... understanding , let me add that repression and sublimation need not per sé be defense psychism ; they may belong to the cate- gory of resistance psychisms as , respectively , indirect and direct forms of resistance ) . Is it possible in ...
Contents
Preface | 5 |
Johnson in parenthesis | 20 |
The degeneration concept in psychiatry | 28 |
Copyright | |
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