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Department of Psychology, Long Island University Brookville, New York.
In this essay, I show how difficult emotions, like aggression and murderous rage, are grappled with in horror movies. Patients' reactions to viewing these films can take place in a safe, creative, therapeutic space that allows for even the darkest themes. I discuss three patients who related to intense rage at the mother when viewing the films Joker and Jurassic Park.
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Acad Psychiatry
March 2013
Dept. of Psychiatry and Medicine, UMDNJ–Robert WoodJohnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, and New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
This essay examines the gothicization of Egyptian manual productions in late-Victorian mummy narratives. These narratives often isolate the mummy's hand as a signifier of craftsmanship, a troubling object for a culture that was mourning the figurative loss of its artisans' hands to mechanized production. Focusing on Bram Stoker's 1903 novel, The Jewel of Seven Stars, I contend that the horror of the mummy's hand emanates from its ambiguous position as an artifact that is itself a means of production.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Tributes to Macdonald Critchley and his achievements in neurolinguistics].
Acta Neurol Taiwan
June 2008
College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei.
Macdonald Critchley, a world renowned neurologist, is best remembered as the person who challenged to solve the mystery and enigma of higher cerebral functions. He was the author of over 200 published articles and 20 books on neurology including his pioneer work on developmental dyslexia, the parietal lobe, cerebral hemisphere dominance and aphasiology. He also published articles on migraine, epilepsy, dementia, visual perseveration, anterior cerebral artery syndromes, indifference to pain, sleep disorders, movement disorders, and myotonia.
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