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The Psychological Development of Vincent Van Gogh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

A. J. Westerman Holstijn
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Vincent van Gogh was born at Zundert (Province of Noord Brabant) in 1853, the eldest son of a minister of the Protestant church. We know little of his childhood years; he is described as a rather headstrong boy, but not abnormally so, his sister (1) pictures him as a great nature-lover and rather an introvert. His mother, a sensible and strongminded woman, handled him with indulgence, his father, by nature a kindly man, could be stern and forbidding, yet all his children including Vincent adored him. He loved his brother, Theo, quite as much, “who had inherited his father's name and his heart's goodness”.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 103 , Issue 430 , January 1957 , pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1957 

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