Kafka, paranoic doubles and the brain: hypnagogic vs. hyper-reflexive models of disrupted self in neuropsychiatric disorders and anomalous conscious states

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Mishara, Aaron L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LITERATURE; PARANOID PSYCHOSIS; PUBLIC FIGURE; SELF CONCEPT; WRITING;

CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LITERATURE, MODERN; MEDICINE IN LITERATURE; PARANOID DISORDERS; SELF CONCEPT; WRITING;

EID: 77955704671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17475341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1747-5341-5-13     Document Type: Article

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