Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the ArtsIn 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.' |
Contents
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Imitative PseudoRelationships | 7 |
The Human Chameleon | 14 |
Better a Fake Somebody than a Real Nobody | 16 |
Frank Abagnales Catch Me If You Can and James Thurbers The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | 20 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Thoreau Jr | 24 |
Chapter 07 Fyodor Dostoyevskys Underground Man and the Psychogenesis of Stalking | 29 |
Sleepwalker in a Mental Jail | 89 |
Frederick Law Olmsteds Childhood Traumas and the Birth of Psychoarchitecture | 97 |
Through Suffering Comes Redemption | 102 |
A Reallife Ivan and Makar | 106 |
Sensory Awareness in Nature | 112 |
Crisis Preparation and a Deliberative Moment | 119 |
Part III HALLUCINATIONS AND ILLUSIONS | 129 |
The Creative Use of Alternate States of Consciousness | 131 |
Chapter 08 The Case of the Quadriplegic Cyberstalker | 34 |
A Murderous Phoenix | 39 |
Chapter 10 The Unabomber the Underground Man and Asperger Syndrome | 44 |
Laughter that Killed | 48 |
The Casedin Man Syndrome | 53 |
Chapter 13 Homophobic Dysphoria in Annie Proulxs Brokeback Mountain | 60 |
Chapter 14 A ShameInducing Epiphany in James Joyces The Dead | 64 |
A Womanizer Learns to Love | 70 |
Inner and Outer Courts of Inquiry | 74 |
An EgoAbsolving Gloss | 78 |
Revenge a Dish Best Savored Cold | 81 |
Part II POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER | 85 |
The Many Facets of PTSD | 87 |
Chapter 27 Joseph Conrads The Secret Sharer and Autoscopic Illusion | 132 |
Chapter 28 Friedrich August Kekulés Apparition of a Snake and the Structure of the Benzene Ring | 136 |
An Imaginary Mountain a Symbolic Tombstone | 141 |
Dostoyevskys Ivan Karamazov and Freuds Bavarian Artist | 145 |
Chapter 31 The Three Phantoms of Herman Melvilles Moby Dick | 152 |
Part IV MOOD IMAGERY IN LITERATURE | 163 |
Icarus Daedalus and Bipolar Disorder | 165 |
Chapter 33 ManicDepressive Mood Swings in Albert Camus The Fall | 167 |
Chapter 34 Bipolar Imagery in Henry David Thoreaus Journal | 175 |
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