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Narrative constructions and sanity in Dostoevsky and Freud

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    J. Wesley Boyd (Medical student)

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Wesley Boyd, J. Narrative constructions and sanity in Dostoevsky and Freud. J Med Hum 12, 163–171 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01138951

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