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Children's literature: the death experience.

Children learn about death and dying through a variety of social, psychologic, and intellectual experiences. A review of 25 children's books provides insight into themes, values, and beliefs children learn about death through reading.

Attitude to Death↗
PubMed1993

[Portrayal of the chronic patients in literature of the 19th century].

Chronic disease appears in the literature and fine arts of the 19th century in its manifestations, its causes and its therapy, as well as its symbolism. Examples of persuasive characters are portrayed next to negative ones-in the respective roles of the patient, the physician, the nurse, as well as of the relatives. The limits of medicine are also made apparent as well as possibilities presented for ways of giving a human meaning to the suffering, disease and death.

Chronic Disease↗
PubMed1996

Character portrayal in Anthony Trollope's Barset novels: a psychoanalytic appraisal.

Anthony Trollope's novels enjoyed great popularity in his own day, and the past several decades have seen a considerable revival of interest in them. His most popular series, the six Barset novels, exemplify his love of life, his psychological sensitivity, and his profound sense of the meaning and value of the smallest nuances of human behavior and interaction. In his comprehension of the psychological vicissitudes of ordinary daily life he has been compared to Chaucer. This paper studies a portrait of a severely depressed character in Trollope's own favorite work, The Last Chronicle of Barset.

Depressive Disorder↗
PubMed1996

Red Cross only positive result of horrifying 1859 bloodbath.

Haunted by the suffering and human devastation he witnessed after the 1859 Battle of Solferino in Italy, Swiss banker Henry Dunant wrote a book that galvanized European governments and resulted in the first international agreement that established rules for the conduct of war. The Geneva Convention also resulted in the formation of the Red Cross.

Europe↗
PubMed1996

[Literature and psychiatry].

Psychiatry is a borderline science that has relations on one hand with the methods of knowledge of natural sciences, on the other with those of the humanities. To investigate the bases of its studies, the psychiatric science often refers to literary and philosophical masterpieces. Therefore, the author analyses some examples of the classic fiction which presents psychopathologic issues. Particularly, the author examines some principal topics: anxiety, psychosomatic illness, depression, schizophrenia and delirium.

Anxiety↗