Overview

This text examines prominent individuals from great literature and their apparent mental disorders or diseases. It then investigates how those disorders and diseases meet the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5) diagnostic criteria, and how the authors of these stories could have had enough knowledge to create characters who were suffering from mental illness hundreds of years before these illnesses were classified or defined.

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Author:   Eric Altschuler (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Temple University School of Medicine)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 22.60cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 14.70cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781605356761

ISBN 10:   160535676
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   21 July 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword by V.S. Ramachandran, M.D., Ph.D Section 1: Introduction to the DSM Introduction Chapter 1. The Case of Samson Son of Manoah Section 2: DSM-5 Diagnoses in Great Literature Chapter 2. Using the DSM-5: The Oldest Case of Schizophrenia Found in a Story by Nicolai Gogol Chapter 3. A Hoarding Old Man and a Disembodied Nose: Other Diagnoses in Gogol Chapter 4. The Case of Dr. Henry Jekyll, M.D., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., PH.D Chapter 5. Melville's Bartleby: Why the Scrivener Preferred Not Chapter 6. An Elementary Diagnosis Chapter 7. ADHD in a Seventeenth-Century Dutch Village School Chapter 8. Disease in the Hundred-Acre Wood: Pediatric Psychiatric Disease in Literature Chapter 9. Moving and Sleeping with Dickens and Dracula Chapter 10. PTSD: A Continuing Saga of Many Wars and Two Cities Section 3: Neuropsychiatric Disease in Literature Chapter 11. Shakespeare Chapter 12. The Incredible Edgar Allan Poe Chapter 13. Heracles and Homer Chapter 14. The Brain that Kills the Heart: Death in a James Joyce Story Section 4: Putting Things to Work Chapter 15. Using the DSM Epilogue: A License to Make Literary Diagnoses

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Eric L. Altschuler, MD, PhD is Associate Chief and Residency Program Director, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York City. His primary research interest is basic and clinically applied cognitive neuroscience: the search to understand how the brain works and how this knowledge can be applied to treat disease. Dr. Altschuler was the first to show a benefit of mirror therapy for individuals with hemiparesis following strokes and the use of mirror therapy for an orthopaedic condition.

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