Neurological disorders in famous artists
By: volume editors, J. Bogousslavsky (Montreux), L. Tatu (Besançon)
Series: Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience -- Vol. 43; Frontiers of neurology and neuroscience -- v. 43.
Publisher: Karger
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Basel, Switzerland; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9783318063943; 9783318063936
Subjects: Nervous system; Diseases; Artists; Celebrities; Famous Persons; Nervous System Diseases; Système nerveux; Maladies; Artistes; Célébrités; HEALTH & FITNESS; General; MEDICAL; Clinical Medicine; Evidence-Based Medicine; Internal Medicine
Description: "In this fourth volume of the popular series 'Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists' we once again delve into the minds of writers, painters, and poets in order to gain better insight on how neurological and psychiatric diseases can influence creativity. The issue of schizophrenia, the interaction between psychological instability and drug abuse, and the intricate association between organic wounds and shell-shock disorders are illustrated with the examples of Franz Kafka, Raymond Roussel, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline and their writings. Dementia has been specifically studied before, including in the previous volumes of Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists. It is revisited here in order to present the striking and well-documented case of Willem de Kooning, which inspired a new approach. Apart from issues that sometimes border on neuropsychiatry, purer neurological cases such as post-amputation limb pain (Arthur Rimbaud) or tabetic ataxia (Edouard Manet) are presented as well. Other fascinating life trajectories associated with cerebral or psychological changes include those of the writers Bjornsen, Tolstoi, Turgeniev, Mann, Ibsen, and Pavese."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Joan Miró and cyclic depression / M.G. Delgado, J. Bogousslavsky; title: Abstract expressionists and brain disease / B. Piechowski-Jozwiak, J. Bogousslavsky; title: Louis-Ferdinand Céline: from First World War neurological wound to mythomania / L. Tatu, O. Roynette, J. Bogousslavsky; title: Creative minds in the aftermath of the Great War: four neurologically wounded artists / C. Maingon, L. Tatu; title: Writers as shell shock witnesses during World War I / L. Tatu, J. Bogousslavsky; title: Édouard Manet's tabes dorsalis: from painful ataxia to phantom limb / J. Bogousslavsky, L. Tatu; title: Thomas Mann and neurology / N. Caputi, D. Birnbaum, F. Boller; title: Arthur Rimbaud: "the man with wind soles' riders" osteosarcoma with postamputation stump pain / J. Bogousslavsky, L. Tatu; title: Travelling into alienation and neurology with a painter: Georges Moreau (1848-1901) / O. Walusinski; title: Neurology in Russian writers: Tolstoy and Turgeniev / R. Altavilla, M. Paciaroni; title: Raymond Roussel's cure with Pierre Janet / L.-P. Luauté; title: Henrik Ibsen's battle with cerebrovascular disease / J.C. Frich; title: Letter to his father by Franz Kafka: literary reconstruction of a traumatic childhood? / E. Castelon Konkiewitz, E.B. Ziff; title: Dementia and change of style: Willem de Kooning: obliteration of disease patterns? / B. Piechowski-Jozwiak, J. Bogousslavsky; title: Machado de Assis: original sin / G.R. de Freitas; title: Cesare pavese: the laboratory of loneliness: a study of among women only / J. Steffen; title: Dissociation, delusion and the splitting of the self in the trial by Franz Kafka: phenomenology and neurobiology of schizophrenia / E. Castelon Konkiewitz, E.B. Ziff.