Kurt Goldstein (1878-1965) The Organism (1939)
A Holitstic Approach to Biology Derived from Pathological Data in Man
I. Method of determining symptoms. Certain general laws of organismic life. Observations on persons with brain injuries
Relative maintenance of ordered behavior by shrinkage of milieu according to defect. These alterations of “preserved performances” imply an extraordinary limitation of the environment in which the patient naturally lives. This statement involves a fact which we are later (see page 445) to recognize as a particularly important law of behavior having general validity: a defective organism achieves ordered behavior only by a shrinkage of its environment in proportion to the defect.