Author: JESSEN, P.,
Title: Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Begründung der Psychologie.
Description: Berlin, Veit & Co., 1855. Hlf. cloth, upper cover detached. (VIII, 716 pp.). (Libr.st.on t.p.). (Some foxing). Hirsch III, 431/2: Jessen, Hegelian, founded a mental hospital 'Hornheim' in which he strove to realise a form of human nursing for mental patients. He belongs to the somatic school of psychiatry. In this book he puts forward that physical inconveniences are only a condition of the nerves : Zilboorg 539.

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