It is interesting and important to note that the flowers that were used to decorate Lear had a specific medicinal value in treating madness. Lear is heard rambling to Gloucester as he moans, “O ruined a piece of Nature…” (4.6.149).
In the history of psychiatry, there is an interesting fact that relates to a Shakespeare diagnosis in Lear regarding his case of progressive senile dementia, which is followed by an attack which is currently observed as an acute mania caused by a demonstration by his faulty judgment, irrational behavior, as well disorientation. Colman established a diagnosis of Lear’s reactive psychosis using a background of the organic mental disorder. Perhaps it was Lear’s vascular origin and his visual hallucinations, leading
In the history of psychiatry, there is an interesting fact that relates to a Shakespeare diagnosis in Lear regarding his case of progressive senile dementia, which is followed by an attack which is currently observed as an acute mania caused by a demonstration by his faulty judgment, irrational behavior, as well disorientation. Colman established a diagnosis of Lear’s reactive psychosis using a background of the organic mental disorder. Perhaps it was Lear’s vascular origin and his visual hallucinations, leading