Origins of Concepts in Human Behavior: Social and Cultural Factors

Washington ; New York: Hemisphere Pub.; Halsted Press ; Wiley, 1977. iv, 204 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.; bibliographical references and index. Near fine(+) to fine(-) in very good partly sunned jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 0470990015; 9780470990018

Halsted Press book; [series].

Contents: 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.

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