How to acquire and strengthen will-power : modern psycho-therapy : a specific remedy for neurasthemia and nervous diseases : a rational course of training of volition and development of energy after the methods of the Nancy School (as represented by Drs. Ribot, Liébeault, Liégeois, Bernheim, De Lagrave, Paul-Emile Lévy, and other eminent physicians) / by Richard J. Ebbard.

  • Ebbard, Richard J.
Date:
1903
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Credit: How to acquire and strengthen will-power : modern psycho-therapy : a specific remedy for neurasthemia and nervous diseases : a rational course of training of volition and development of energy after the methods of the Nancy School (as represented by Drs. Ribot, Liébeault, Liégeois, Bernheim, De Lagrave, Paul-Emile Lévy, and other eminent physicians) / by Richard J. Ebbard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sufficient to enable the child to pronounce the word with ease; and this brings us to the next important stage of our inquiry. The reception of the sensations, or stimuli, by our consciousness—whether they emanate from the outer world, or from within ourselves—and their fixation in the memory; and, further, the development of systems of connection amongst them ; are the processes which constitute the receptive phase of our intellectual and psychical life. Its opposite is the emissive phase, in which takes place the reaction of our ego against these external and internal stimuli and their further utilisation. This reaction manifests itself first of all in our movements, which lie at the base of our actions. But then these movements are accomplished, not singly, but in groups. When I move my arm, an entire, pre-determined series of muscles comes into operation; and the same happens when I move my legs, my fingers, &c. We have already seen that these movements of the muscles are caused through certain specific nerves, viz., the motor nerves, and, indeed, it has been proved by physiological experiments that these nerves spring from specific centres, from which such groups or series of muscular movements—or better, muscular contractions—are controlled. We are familiar with a few of these centres, but most of them are still unknown to us. We are acquainted with a centre of speech, from which the movements of the organs of speech are induced and initiated, and we know that should this centre be injured the patient, though still able to grasp the meaning of all the words he hears, can no longer utter those words himself