Ethik in der Psychiatrie Probleme und Perspektiven
Ausgabe: 3/2008
54. Jahrgang
Geisteskrankheit im Medium der Literatur
The realm of psychiatry is a key literary subject: again and again the patient and his illness, the psychiatrist and his therapy, the psychiatric institution and the reaction of society have been written and thought about. The literary texts cover the entire range from the phenomenon to the symbolism and are affected by the changes of time and place. Aesthetics and ethics are conjoined; the literary concepts are confronted with the psychiatric understanding of the illness and both influence and stimulate each other. In the literary medium mental illness appears as a physical, psychological, social and mental phenomenon, as a factual as well as normative judgement. In its differentiated, yet broad and holistic perspective literature offers a fascinating approach to mental illness for laypeople and psychiatrists alike.
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