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https://doi.org/10.1007/b138414ia and the neurasthenias but Parkinsonism and chorea; and even the classic term hysteria was not applied in any uniform fashion, for instance being used for males by some writers but not by others. Today Cullen’s organic concept of neurosis persists in some Pavlovian schools, but even if one ignores

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https://doi.org/10.1007/b138414c disorders than to promoting general mental health. In the previous chapters I have for the most part avoided referring to mental health, since the term carries two quite different meanings, both rather vague. Nevertheless, there are two good reasons why a book on Comparative Psychiatry should incl

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Introduction,o Java and Singapore, comparing samples of patients there with samples in Europe. Since the contrast in that paper is mainly between Asians and Europeans, one may get the impression that it is racial variations that were in his mind, but the subsequent editions of his famous textbook [318] make it c

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