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PubMed2002

[The phenomen of sudden graying of the hair in the poem "Die Füsse im Feuer" by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer].

In his poem "Die Füsse im Feuer" Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898) describes in detail the phenomenon of sudden graying of the hair. The protagonist is a Huguenot nobleman who hosts the man who has tortured to death his wife some years ago without killing him despite ample opportunities. Sudden whitening of the hair has been used as literary stylistic means with the aim to demonstrate extreme psychological stress to the world, without confirmation of its occurrence in each case.

Famous Persons↗
PubMed2002

["How this conflict tortures me!" The man Emil Kraepelin as viewed in his poems].

In 1928, Emil Kraepelin's poems were published posthumously. They provide thus far unknown insight into his intellectual and emotional world. Here we meet the man Kraepelin rather than the psychiatrist. We feel the rather pensive mood he expresses using the same allegories from the world of nature again and again. Kraepelin suffers from the fate of his mother country and his profession as a doctor, which puts him in "slave chains," thus preventing him from following his own course and fulfilling his longings. Those can be seen in his wish to dedicate himself fully to his nosological, psychopathological, or experimental psychological research. One wonders why he did not push his aims through more forcefully in these areas. Procrastination became Kraepelin's self-deception, since he could enter those worlds periodically only. In this way, they resemble his journeys to the south, which became a metaphor for freedom.

Germany↗
PubMed1998

[The young Heine. Case history of pseudologia phantastica].

The young Heinrich Heine showed signs of pseudologia phantastica. While studying the diaries of his greatuncle, he identified with the latter. The underlying factors of this psychopathological development are discussed in this paper.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2004

Trauma management in ancient Greece: value of surgical principles through the years.

This article surveys in an interdisciplinary fashion the evolution of ancient Greek medicine and traumatology in particular. In sounding out the key methods and themes of Greek medicine, we cite a range of medical treatises and correlate them to the rich evidence of ancient Greek art (iconography), which often is explicit in its depiction of the management of disease and of trauma in particular. The article begins its survey from Homer, our first source of medical information, and highlights the pioneering work of Hippocrates and the secularized professional guild of the "sons of Aesclepius."

Ceramics↗
PubMed2005

A reminiscence.

The founding of the William Carlos Williams poetry competition for medical students is recounted. A few highlights from its nearly twenty-five years of operation are offered. Gleanings from the hearts and souls of some of the winning poets are shared.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed2006

Medical humanism in the poetry of Raymond Carver.

There is an analogy between a scientific approach to medicine in which the patient ultimately becomes an object of study rather than a whole person, and a post/modern aesthetic in literature in which the subject has little or no agency in a chaotic linguistic universe. Raymond Carver died of cancer in 1988, and in both his pre- and post-diagnostic poetry there is humanistic lyricism that contributes to re-establishing empathic bonds between readers and characters, and to re-humanizing the patient as a whole person in the context of contemporary health institutions. Close readings of poems with descriptions of the autopsy room and of patient-doctor relations bring out the medical humanism in Carver's verse.

History, 20th Century↗
PubMed2006

Catharsis and moral therapy II: An Aristotelian account.

This article aims at analysing Aristotle's poetic conception of catharsis to assess whether it may be of help in enlightening the particular didactic challenges involved when training medical students to cope morally with complex or tragic situations of medical decision-making. A further aim of this investigation is to show that Aristotle's criteria for distinguishing between history and tragedy may be employed to reshape authentic stories of sickness into tragic stories of sickness. Furthermore, the didactic potentials of tragic stories of sickness will be tried out. The ultimate aim is to investigate whether the possibilities of developing a therapeutic conception of medical ethics researched in a previous article on catharsis and moral therapy in Plato may be strengthened through the hermeneutics of the Aristotelian conception of tragic catharsis.

Catharsis↗