Author : T. S. Clouston
Release : 2015-08-05
Genre : Psychology
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Download or read book The Neuroses of Development written by T. S. Clouston. This book was released on 2015-08-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Neuroses of Development: Being the Morison Lectures Among the many points of view from which disease is now looked on by the modern physician, the etiological and the relational are not the least important. Looked at in these two ways, many diseases become vastly more interesting, and even become subject to modes of prevention and treatment that may legitimately be called scientific. In the course of the growth and development of the brain there are liable to occur certain failures in the attainment of a working standard of nervous and nutritional health, and the resulting defects or diseases may properly be called "Neuroses of Development." They have a natural relationship to each other in that they are thus developmental; and for the ultimate etiology of them all we have to look to heredity. The combined solidarity and differentiation of the brain in its structure and functions naturally give all such diseases and defects some common characters as well as certain special features. The following Lectures are a most imperfect and fragmentary attempt to treat of such defects and diseases looking at them chiefly from the developmental and the relational points of view. They were delivered to very numerous and far too appreciative audiences of my professional brethren, many of whom have said to me since, that this mode of looking at certain diseases had been of practical use to them. This must be my excuse for republishing them from the Edinburgh Medical Journal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.