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Habit, as a Morbid Mental Condition, and its Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Extract

A habit is a voluntary nervous action, which by constant repetition has become automatic. It does not follow that the nervous action has originated in the individual in whom the habit is established. It may have been inherited in its automatic or habitual form.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1897

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