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Emil Kraepelin and Walter Benjamin: distant contemporaries, diverse working methods, any resonance?
Int Rev Psychiatry
September 2024
Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
The work methods of eminent psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) and of literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are described based on the literature describing their ways of working. Kraepelin's approach of cross-sectional observation of symptoms and the longitudinal study of illness course in distinguishing 'disease entities' as well as his research strategy of investigating causes and correlates using methods of experimental psychology, pathology and neurobiology are described. Critical statements (on Kraepelin's work) highlighting preconceived concepts, ideological positions and a lack of critical reflection are reported.
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Hist Psychiatry
September 2024
Cluster of Excellence Roots - Christian-Albrechts Universität zu Kiel, Germany.
is ubiquitous in ancient medicine and philosophy. Galen mentions the disease innumerable times, Patristic authors take it as a favourite allegory of human flaws, and no ancient doctor fails to diagnose it and attempt its cure. Yet the nature of this once famous disease has not been properly understood by scholars.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis essay explores the connections between the modern autism intervention Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) and medieval personification allegory to show how literature powerfully enables the work of neurodiversity. Invoking the theory of the language game to investigate the clinical history of ABA, the essay puts the fourteenth-century poet William Langland in dialogue with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Stanley Cavell. I argue that the approach to language emerging from this constellation of voices works as a precise tool for diagnosing the ethical liabilities of ABA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrom gorse to ngahere: an emerging allegory for decolonising the New Zealand health system.
N Z Med J
October 2020
Te Rau Ora, Wellington.
Prior to colonisation, Māori had a well-developed holistic health system based on maintaining balance between people, place and spirit. The colonial imposition of British economic, religious, educational, legal, health and governance, through warfare, immigration, legislation and social coercion had a devastating effect on Māori health outcomes. With the release of the WAI 2575 Waitangi Tribunal report exposing the failings of our health system in relation to Māori health, the need to decolonise our health system becomes more pressing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Mask and Self - and the Illness: Injuries of the Soul in Sylvia Plath's Poetry].
Psychiatr Hung
September 2019
Eotvos Lorand Tudomanyegyetem Bolcseszettudomanyi Kar, Amerikanisztika Tanszek, Budapest, Hungary, E-mail:
The study focuses on two features of Sylvia Plath's poetry that may be directly linked to her illness, her mask poetry and her female Bildung, where the former is informed by her sense of plural selfhood, while the latter gives account of the failures of her creative self-constructions. Although no direct connection can be set up between life and work even in the case of a confessional poet, it is probably safe to claim that multiple personality may manifest in a plural poetic self, while the Self developing in Bildung narratives contradicts the idea of a split personality. Enikô Bollobás explores the heteroclite diversity of artistic vision through discussing the pluralism of poetic masks and identities, insisting that, in the spirit of late modernism, no self-interpretive frame exists for Plath, one that would hold together the diverse identities.
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