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Shock, pain and antipathy are common audience responses to King Lear's violent abuse of Cordelia in Scene 1 of King Lear; however, the play then shifts so rapidly to other dramatic relationships and events that it tends to push these feelings out of mind. This shift is here regarded as a seduction to repress the fear and antipathy aroused by Lear. This effect opens the way to sympathetic identification with him in his subsequent humiliation, suffering and madness.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychiatr Ment Health Nurs
April 2010
University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, Houston, Texas 77021, USA.
This phenomenological study, using the Husserlian philosophy, explored the perceptions of Nigerian-born immigrant women in the United States and their portrayal of depression. Through face-to-face, semi-structured, audio-taped interviews incorporating open-ended questions and probes to facilitate discussion, the study examined a purposive sample of 19 Nigerian-born immigrant women's perception of depression. Data were analysed using Colaizzi's seven step method of data analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychosomatics
August 2003
Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA.
Hosp Health Netw
July 1997
Cursed by financial losses and merger madness, today's breed of management service organizations faces similar challenges, according to a new survey by Medimetrix. This exclusive Executive Chartbook profiles MSOs and tracks key issues now and into the future.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMed Law
June 1993
Harry Friedenwald Chair of the History of Medicine, Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.
This article considers the attitude towards the insane and insanity in ancient Jewish sources. In the Bible, the most famous case of a psychopathological personality is that of King Saul, who was plagued by 'an evil spirit'. Saul also raises the problematic connections between prophecy and frenzy.
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