The Major Symptoms of Hysteria
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interesting manner, that one gains pleasure as well as profit from reading them. Those who are not already acquainted with .the author's views should procure this book, which presents them mcst lucidly, and at moderate length. Professor Janet's work has done much to elucidate hysteria by a process of analysis of the psychical phenomena which lie at its root. We may remind our readers that according to his view these phenomena comprise the occurrence of certain somnambulistic states?that is, of states which may roughly be called " absent-mindedness ; ""
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