The history of associationism and British medical psychology.
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philosophical works already discussed. This can be seen in the following excerpt from Cox's work: Whatever agitates the mind intensely, whatever occupies it exclusively, always hazards its faculties, inducing a state favourable to the attack of mental disease. Riveted attention to one train of thought, is a very frequent source of insanity; the first effects of this dangerous practice are obvious in the km ... of volition, in an inability to abstract the mind from the subject, which so interests and, occupies it ... It is a curious fact, that a peculiarity somewhat analogous attaches to the sense of hearing, sight, and feeling; whatever has occupied either ofthem for a considerable length of time, will seem to be present long after it is dismissed; thus the sense of motion after sailing, the perpetual r e of tunes, etc." HAMLAm, Observations on madness, p. 34. 6 HAsLAM, Madness and meancholy, p. 240. a Cox, Practical Observations on insanity, p. 15.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1967