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A Philosophy of Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Bernard Hart*
Affiliation:
Long Grove Asylum, Epsom

Extract

“What we gain from speculative philosophy is not so much answers to questions which common sense universally asks, as the knowledge that these questions themselves, since they are based on untrue concepts, must vanish away.”—Paul Möller.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1908 

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