Bookeditors, Julien Bogousslavsky, Laurent Tatu.
Summary: "Provides examples of human life and creativity as being influenced by mind and brain activity changes"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Joan Miró and cyclic depression / M.G. Delgado, J. Bogousslavsky
Abstract expressionists and brain disease / B. Piechowski-Jozwiak, J. Bogousslavsky
Louis-Ferdinand Céline: from First World War neurological wound to mythomania / L. Tatu, O. Roynette, J. Bogousslavsky
Creative minds in the aftermath of the Great War: four neurologically wounded artists / C. Maingon, L. Tatu
Writers as shell shock witnesses during World War I / L. Tatu, J. Bogousslavsky
Édouard Manet's tabes dorsalis: from painful ataxia to phantom limb / J. Bogousslavsky, L. Tatu
Thomas Mann and neurology / N. Caputi, D. Birnbaum, F. Boller
Arthur Rimbaud: "the man with wind soles' riders" osteosarcoma with postamputation stump pain / J. Bogousslavsky, L. Tatu
Travelling into alienation and neurology with a painter: Georges Moreau (1848-1901) / O. Walusinski
Neurology in Russian writers: Tolstoy and Turgeniev / R. Altavilla, M. Paciaroni
Raymond Roussel's cure with Pierre Janet / L.-P. Luauté
Henrik Ibsen's battle with cerebrovascular disease / J.C. Frich
Letter to his father by Franz Kafka: literary reconstruction of a traumatic childhood? / E. Castelon Konkiewitz, E.B. Ziff
Dementia and change of style: Willem de Kooning: obliteration of disease patterns? / B. Piechowski-Jozwiak, J. Bogousslavsky
Machado de Assis: original sin / G.R. de Freitas
Cesare pavese: the laboratory of loneliness: a study of among women only / J. Steffen
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.