Autopathography and depression: Describing the 'despair beyond despair'

Journal of Medical Humanities

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 79-91

  Moran, Stephen T ^a  

^a CABRINI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Depression; Fitzgerald; Hemingway; Major depression; Major depressive disorder; Mental illness and literature; Pathography; Psychiatry; Styron; Substance abuse; Suicide; Twentieth century American literature

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CREATIVITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC FIGURE; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ALCOHOLISM; CREATIVENESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746655015     PISSN: 10413545     EISSN: 15733645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10912-006-9007-8     Document Type: Article

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