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    Personality

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    Why should a practising physician write on personality ? Should not this task be undertaken by an erudite psychologist, who is au fait with all the intricacies of mental science. The answer may be, that Personality is essentially a practical entity and not a theoretical composition. Moreover, the physician, especially if he practise amongst those who are instable in body and mind, is constantly brought up against all sorts and conditions of personalities. He must sfudy these personalities with care, he must analyse, to find out what are the symptoms of ill- health, yet he must never lose sight of the total synthesis. To treat individual symptoms is futile, to treat the patient as a whole, in all his relations, individual and social, is essential. Thus a conception of personality is gained, which is rather different from that of the professional psychologist. It is in the hope that this conception, however inadequately expressed, may be of some interest and use, that this task has been undertaken.MANY psychologists have endeavoured to present an adequate explanation of Personality, but it still remains a somewhat vague conception, such as is beloved by the journalist, since he may twist it to fit any meaning he chooses. To define the term is a matter of difficulty, for Personality is one of those concepts which all of us take for granted as having a concise meaning, until we try to express that meaning in words. One reason of this difficulty is that most definitions are given in terms of the component parts of the whole, whereas Personality can only have a meaning if thought of in terms of a synthesis. The first and most general impulse of mankind when he wants to understand is to take the watch to pieces, to see how the wheels go round. It is only later and in certain cases that there is any enthusiasm to put it together again and understand its construction. Apart from this, however, few people, except those who have given special study to the subject, are at all clear as to what they wish to define when they talk of Personality. The difference between such terms as the ego, the character, and the personality, is not realized, and they are apt to become interchangeable

    Coliuria in children

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    I have determined to write my thesis on coli -uria in children for the fact that I have the opportunity of utilizing material which has not so far been published in the shape of a series of 50 cases some of which I have had charge of myself at Paddington Green Children's Hospital and at the Hampstead and North West London Hospital.After a preliminary discussion of the features of the condition I propose to quote the above 50 cases together with 50 selected from the literature as being either typical of the condition or illustrating some special point, and to analyse the features of interest in these 100 cases

    Anti-Aging is not Necessarily Anti-Death: Bioethics and the Front Lines of Practice

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    The Role of Equity in Employment Noncompetition Cases

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    The Market as a Matter of Money: Denaturalizing Economic Currency in American Constitutional History

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