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Origins of concepts in human behavior : social and cultural factors
- Author
- Altschule, Mark D.
- Title
- Origins of concepts in human behavior : social and cultural factors / Mark D. Altschule.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Washington : Hemisphere Pub. Corp. ; New York : Distributed solely by Halsted Press, c1977.
- Description
- iv, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Other titles
- John Money collection.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- 1. The pneuma of the soul
- 2. The ideas of the Huron Indians about the unconscious mind
- 3. St. Isidore of Seville and his depressing ideas about depression
- 4. George Cheyne and his English malady
- 5. Acedia -its evolution from deadly sin to psychiatric syndrome
- 6. The singular case of James Tilly Matthews, a clear paranoid
- 7. The early history of psychiatric treatment
- 8. Acupuncture in the Western world up to a century ago
- 9. The calcifies pineal gland: nature mimics art -almost
- 10. Swedenborg and Stahl: opposite -and wrong-sides of the same coin
- 11. Miscellanea.
- Subject headings
- Psychiatry--History. Medicine--History. Humanism.
- Medical subjects
- Behavior--history--Essays. History of Medicine--Essays. Psychiatry--history--Essays.
- ISBN
- 0470990015