Overview
In Dostoyevsky's Stalker, we discover how the arts may illuminate psychiatry and psychoanalysis, as well as how these disciplines may elucidate works of literature, art, and cinema. Examining a diversity of authors, artists, historical figures, and psychopaths over the course of modern history, this groundbreaking collection of essays proposes a paradigm shift in psychiatry, based on the idea that some symptoms of mental illness may have constructive uses and may be used by the sufferer for mental and spiritual growth instead of going untreated or else being ""analyzed away.""
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Sperber
Publisher: University Press of America
Imprint: University Press of America
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.40cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.336kg
ISBN: 9780761849933
ISBN 10: 0761849939
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 13 April 2010
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Dr. Sperber has discovered Freud's secret, that the artist sometimes has more to teach us about the human condition than our patients. In Dostoyevsky's Stalker he opens new windows into the 'secret gardens of the self.'--Alan A. Stone, M.D.
From Dostoyevsky to the Unabomber; from Thoreau to Woody Allen, Michael Sperber's new book is a tour de force of integrative thinking and creative analysis. Dostoyevsky's Stalker will be a valuable work for all those seeking deeper channels into the human mind. -- Ronald Pies, M.D. Consistently and elegantly in these essays, Dr. Sperber shows psychodynamics and the arts to be mutually illuminating-offering complementary ways of perceiving persons struggling for self-awareness, authenticity, and worthy lives. An intelligently adventurous book-the report of an alert, imaginative, and appropriately ranging professional. -- Paul Schwaber, Ph.D. Dr. Sperber has discovered Freud's secret, that the artist sometimes has more to teach us about the human condition than our patients. In Dostoyevsky's Stalker he opens new windows into the 'secret gardens of the self.' -- Alan A. Stone, M.D.
Author Information
Michael Sperber, M.D., is the author of Henry David Thoreau: Cycles and Psyche and the co-editor (with Lissy F. Jarvik, M.D., Ph.D.) of Psychiatry and Genetics: Psychosocial, Ethical and Legal Considerations. Dr. Sperber trained in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where he taught for many years. He has also taught in the honors program, Department of Social Relations, Harvard College, and is currently psychiatric consultant to the Neuropsychiatry / Behavioral Neurology Service at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.
