Self sorting, social

Figure 4.3 Chemical structures of compounds used for social self-sorting in aqueous solution driven by ion-dipole, metal-ligand, tt-tt, and hydrophobic interactions.

The onset of essential schizophrenia usually begins with the magnification of some umesolved conflict in the individual s life, perhaps a poor sexual adjustment or deficiencies in social relationships, which is apt to give rise to intense feelings of impotence, failure, or personal incompetence to the extent that self-concern may so overwhelm the personality that the schizophrenic becomes aware of little else. The schizophrenic syndrome may end at this point if the individual is successful in attaining some sort of personality reorganization and resolution of the precipitating conflict. 

In German-speaking lands, books of medicines were addressed to house fathers and house mothers of all social orders, although, as we will see, medicines of the more complicated chemical sort (as opposed to simple herbal remedies) were most often reserved for the wealthier ranks. One well-known author, Lorenz Fries, wrote for lay people of every stripe who because of material and/or geographic necessity had in times of illness to substitute for physicians and apothecaries and take refuge in self-medication. Lay... 

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