Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Bennett, M. R

Title Virginia Woolf and neuropsychiatry / Maxwell Bennett
Published Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Contents Part I: Introduction. Sexual Abuse, Literary Genius and a Mind Gone Awry -- The Development of Early 20th Century Psychiatry and Its Failure -- Freud, the Subconscious and Virginia Woolf -- Virginia Woolf's Suicide -- Part II: Neuropsychiatry and suicide. Brain Networks, Hormones and Genes Implicated in Depression -- The Pathology of Synapses in Brain Networks Implicated in Depression -- On the Mechanism of Action of an Anti-depressant -- On the Identification of Drugs Modulating Epigenetic Mechanisms in Depression -- Brain Networks in Psychosis -- Part III: On mental illness. The Mind, Mental Illness and the Stream of Consciousness
Summary This book, written by one of the leaders in the field of the neurosciences, will give an explanation of the symptoms and eventual untimely suicide of one of literatures greatest authors; Virginia Woolf. The sources used are letters and statements from Woolf herself, the literature she wrote and comments, letters and any other documentation that referred to her mental state and her medical status. The author will use current insight into depression, the mental consequences of child abuse and drug interactions/effects to illustrate this case study. The book should appeal to researchers in the neurosciences, psychology and psychiatry as well as to a broader audience, mainly individuals who are interested in the (external and internal) forces that drove Woolf to write her material
Analysis psychiatrie
psychiatry
psychoanalyse
psychoanalysis
biomedische wetenschappen
biomedicine
geneeskunde
medicine
gezondheid
health
neurowetenschap
neuroscience
neurobiologie
neurobiology
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Mental health
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Death and burial
SUBJECT Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast
Subject Depression, Mental.
Neuropsychiatry.
Neuropsychiatry -- history
Depressive Disorder -- history
Depressive Disorder
Depression
Death and burial of a person
Depression, Mental
Mental health
Neuropsychiatry
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012954281
ISBN 9789400757486
9400757484