Michael Sperber

Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Dostoyevsky's Stalker, we discover how the arts may illuminate psychiatry and psychoanalysis, as well as how these disciplines may elucidate works of literature, art, and cinema. Examining a diversity of authors, artists, historical figures, and psychopaths over the course of modern history, this groundbreaking collection of essays proposes a paradigm shift in psychiatry, based on the idea that some symptoms of mental illness may have constructive uses and may be used by the sufferer for mental and spiritual growth instead of going untreated or else being "analyzed away."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761885368
• Artikelnr.: 75136633

Autorenporträt

Michael Sperber, M.D., is the author of Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche and the co-editor (with Lissy F. Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D.) of Psychiatry and Genetics: Psychosocial, Ethical and Legal Considerations. Dr. Sperber trained in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he taught for many years. He has also taught in the honors program, Department of Social Relations, Harvard College, and is currently psychiatric consultant to the Neuropsychiatry / Behavioral Neurology Service at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 PART I: VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF SHAME
Chapter 5 1. Shame, the "As-if" Personality, and the Search for Identity
Chapter 6 2. Anton Chekov's "The Darling": Imitative Pseudo-Relationships
Chapter 7 3. Woody Allen's Zelig: The Human Chameleon
Chapter 8 4. Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley: Better a Fake
Somebody than a Real Nobody
Chapter 9 5. Reinvented Selves: Frank Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can and
James Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Chapter 10 6. Henry David Thoreau's Alter Egos: Ralph Waldo Emerson and
JOhn Thoreau Jr.
Chapter 11 7. Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Underground Man and the Psychogenesis of
Stalking
Chapter 12 8. The Case of the Quadriplegic Cyberterrorist
Chapter 13 9. The Unabomber at Harvard: A Murderous Phoenix
Chapter 14 10. The Unabomber, the Underground Man, and Asperger Syndrome
Chapter 15 11. Anton Chekhov's "The Man in a Case": Laughter that Killed
Chapter 16 12. Glenn Gould: the "Cased-in Man" Syndrome
Chapter 17 13. Homophobic Dysphoria in Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain
Chapter 18 14. A Shame-Inducing Epiphany in James Joyce's "The Dead"
Chapter 19 15. Anton Chekhov's "Lady with the Pet Dog": A Womanizer Learns
to Love
Chapter 20 16. Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim: Inner and Outer Courts of Inquiry
Chapter 21 17. Edward Hopper's Last Painting, Two Comedians: An
Ego-Absolving Gloss
Chapter 22 18. Alexander Pushkin's "The Shot": Revenge, a Dish Best Savored
Cold
Part 23 PART II: POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
Chapter 24 19. Introduction: The Many Facets of PTSD
Chapter 25 20. Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield": Sleepwalker in a Mental
Jail
Chapter 26 21. Frederick Law Olmsted's Childhood Traumas and the Birth of
Psychoarchitecture
Chapter 27 22. Leo Tolstoy's "God Sees the Truth, but Waits": Through
Suffering Comes Redemption
Chapter 28 23. Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers: A Real-life Ivan and
Makar
Chapter 29 24. Henry David Thoreau's "Wilderness Therapy": Sensory
Awareness in Nature
Chapter 30 25. The Great Deeds of Henry David Thoreau, Mohandas Gandhi, and
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Crisis, Preparation, and a Deliberative Moment
Chapter 31 26. Introduction: The Creative Use of Alternate States of
Consciousness
Chapter 32 27. Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer and Autoscopic Illusion
Chapter 33 28. Friedrich August Kekulé's Apparition of a Snake and the
Structure of the Benzene Ring
Chapter 34 29. Henry David Thoreau: An Imaginary Mountain, A Symbolic
Tombstone
Chapter 35 30. Demonic Hallucinations and Patricidal Guilt: Dostoyevsky's
Ivan Karamazov and Freud's Bavarian Artist
Chapter 36 31. The Three Phantoms of Herman Melville's Moby Dick
Part 37 PART IV: MOOD IMAGERY IN LITERATURE
Chapter 38 32. Introduction: Icarus, Daedalus, and Bipolar Disorder
Chapter 39 33. Manic-Depressive Mood Swings in Albert Camus' The Fall
Chapter 40 34. Bipolar Imagery in Henry David Thoreau's Journals
Chapter 41 Bibliography