Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam.

  • James Jackson Putnam
Date:
1915
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Credit: Human motives / by James Jackson Putnam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    One of the first facts that forced itself gradually more and more upon his notice was that the childhood of patients with nervous symptoms is, in an unexpected degree and sense, the parent of their later years; and also that the symptoms which many of them present later form a sort of hieroglyphic language in which their earlier history is preserved. He learned to see that the accounts which his patients gave to explain the onset of their illnesses had by no means the significance which they purported to have. Most of these nervous disorders come on either in puberty, —■ that is, at the beginning of one of the great ■ critical periods of life, — or at a time when the person concerned is subjected to some one or another of the inevitable strains of personal, domestic, or social responsibility. This is no more true, however, of nervous invalids than it is of persons living the ordinary life of citizens in the community. The long shadows of coming responsibility,
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