Unsoundness of Mind

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Methuen, 1911 - 360 من الصفحات
"This book discusses unsoundness of mind. The author discusses the fine line between sanity and insanity, how to discover mental unsoundness, and how the condition has historically been treated"--Résumé de l'éditeur. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).
 

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الصفحة 95 - My theory, on the contrary, is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.
الصفحة 96 - In rage, it is notorious how we " work ourselves up " to a climax by repeated outbreaks of expression. Refuse to express a passion, and it dies. Count ten before venting your anger, and its occasion seems ridiculous. Whistling to keep up courage is no mere figure of speech. On the other hand, sit all day in a moping posture, sigh, and reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers.
الصفحة 96 - ... wish to conquer undesirable emotional tendencies in ourselves, we must assiduously, and in the first instance coldbloodedly, go through the outward movements of those contrary dispositions which we prefer to cultivate. The reward of persistency will infallibly come, in the fading out of the sullenness or depression, and the advent of real cheerfulness and kindliness in their stead.
الصفحة 95 - Common sense says: we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike. The hypothesis here to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect; that the one mental state is not immediately induced by the other; that the bodily manifestations must first be interposed between; and that the more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that...
الصفحة 179 - Wherefore that here we may briefly end : of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least 175 as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
الصفحة 217 - Lear. Does any here know me? This is not Lear : Does Lear walk thus? speak thus? Where are his eyes Î Either his notion weakens, his disceruings Are lethargied. Ha ! waking ? 't is not so. Who is it that can tell me who I am ? — ь Fool.
الصفحة 13 - And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
الصفحة 216 - tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age ; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death. — Our son of Cornwall, And you, our no less loving son of Albany, We have this hour a constant will to publish Our daughters' several dowers, that future strife May be prevented now.
الصفحة 217 - O let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven ! Keep me in temper ; I would not be mad ! — Enter Gentleman.
الصفحة 210 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; yoxi say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.

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