Images of psychiatrists have abounded in television and cinema, albeit largely in the form of various crude stereotypes (1). However, although madness, suicide, and innumerable other gradations of psychological misery have obviously been prominent subjects for literature since its beginning, intelligent explorations of psychiatrists per se, in their modern manifestation as professional therapists and medical doctors, have been harder to come by in serious fiction. In contrast, other kinds of physicians have been depicted powerfully and often sympathetically in such major works as Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith, Albert Camus's The Plague, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. It is difficult to think of any works of comparable stature having a psychiatrist as a significant character. Although Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night is a psychiatrist (who rather obliviously falls in love with and marries his patient), it can be argued that the novel is essentially a tragic love story that happens to contain vague notions about 1920s' psychiatry (2). The psychiatrist in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a cipher. The view of psychiatrists in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is mostly resentful, but does allow for some ambiguity. One must advance to
Robert Pinsky and the Poetry of Psychiatry
Abstract
Images of psychiatrists have abounded in television and cinema, albeit largely in the form of various crude stereotypes (1). However, although madness, suicide, and innumerable other gradations of psychological misery have obviously been prominent subjects for literature since its beginning, intelligent explorations of psychiatrists per se, in their modern manifestation as professional therapists and medical doctors, have been harder to come by in serious fiction. In contrast, other kinds of physicians have been depicted powerfully and often sympathetically in such major works as Sinclair Lewis's Arrowsmith, Albert Camus's The Plague, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward. It is difficult to think of any works of comparable stature having a psychiatrist as a significant character. Although Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night is a psychiatrist (who rather obliviously falls in love with and marries his patient), it can be argued that the novel is essentially a tragic love story that happens to contain vague notions about 1920s' psychiatry (2). The psychiatrist in Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a cipher. The view of psychiatrists in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar is mostly resentful, but does allow for some ambiguity. One must advance toPreview Only. This article cannot be rented because we do not currently have permission from the publisher.
/lp/american-psychiatric-publishing-inc-journal/robert-pinsky-and-the-poetry-of-psychiatry-hf8K11K7fN
Welcome to DeepDyve! Rent Premier Research Articles and Save Up to 90%
Preview Only
Robert Pinsky and the Poetry of Psychiatry
Scheurich, Neil
Follow Academic Psychiatry
, Volume 25 (3): 173
American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Sep 1, 2001
More Info
More Like This Article
View All dataSource[]=actageo&dataSource[]=aspet&dataSource[]=aaos&dataSource[]=aacc&dataSource[]=aacr&dataSource[]=aea&dataSource[]=aip&dataSource[]=ajnr&dataSource[]=ams&dataSource[]=aps_physical&dataSource[]=appi_book&dataSource[]=appi_journal&dataSource[]=apha&dataSource[]=asip&dataSource[]=asm&dataSource[]=asn&dataSource[]=aspb&dataSource[]=avs&dataSource[]=annual_reviews&dataSource[]=arxiv&dataSource[]=acm&dataSource[]=berghahn&dataSource[]=cabi&dataSource[]=clinical_trials&dataSource[]=dailymed&dataSource[]=degruyter&dataSource[]=du_press&dataSource[]=esa&dataSource[]=eu_press&dataSource[]=elsevier&dataSource[]=emerald&dataSource[]=ejtr&dataSource[]=emea&dataSource[]=epo&dataSource[]=faseb&dataSource[]=gsa&dataSource[]=health_affairs&dataSource[]=hindawi&dataSource[]=imanager&dataSource[]=imedpub&dataSource[]=informa_healthcare&dataSource[]=informs&dataSource[]=iop&dataSource[]=iucr&dataSource[]=iospress&dataSource[]=jbjs&dataSource[]=leftcoast&dataSource[]=lu_press&dataSource[]=mesharpe&dataSource[]=mary_ann_liebert&dataSource[]=medline&dataSource[]=mit_press&dataSource[]=nature&dataSource[]=oxford&dataSource[]=pier_professional&dataSource[]=pnas&dataSource[]=portlandpress&dataSource[]=psyc_articles&dataSource[]=psyc_books&dataSource[]=psyc_critiques&dataSource[]=plos_journal&dataSource[]=pubmed_central&dataSource[]=rsna&dataSource[]=rockefeller&dataSource[]=rcn&dataSource[]=ria&dataSource[]=rsc&dataSource[]=sage&dataSource[]=spie&dataSource[]=springer_journal&dataSource[]=springer&dataSource[]=taylor_francis&dataSource[]=aps&dataSource[]=the_scientist&dataSource[]=uc_press&dataSource[]=uspto_abstract&dataSource[]=wiley&dataSource[]=pct
© 2012 DeepDyve, Inc. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service | Privacy Policy
