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Habit, as a Morbid Mental Condition, and its Treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Henry Kesteven
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Extract

A habit is a voluntary nervous action, which by constant repetition has become automatic. It does not follow that the nervous action has originated in the individual in whom the habit is established. It may have been inherited in its automatic or habitual form.

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Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 43 , Issue 182 , July 1897 , pp. 491 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1897

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