Sanatorium

The Confluence of European Ideology in Franz Kafka’s Fiction Abstract: Franz Kafka one of the major German language novelist and short story writer was born on July 3, 1883 at Prague. His posthumous works brought him fame not only in Germany, but in Europe as well. By 1946 Kafka’s works had a great effect abroad, and especially in translation. Apart from Max Brod who was the first commentator and publisher of the first Franz Kafka biography, we have Edwin and Willa Muir, principle English…

Karl Augustus Menninger was born July 22, 1893 in Topeka, KS to Charles Frederick and Florence Vesta Menninger (KWCH, 2011). As a boy, Karl was inspired by his dentist who told him anyone should be honored to work with his father whom was a highly respected doctor. He dreamed about the possibilities he could have working with his father to improve medicine. It was during his studies at Washburn University, Indiana University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Harvard Medical School…

“Studies of the DSM-II found that when two psychiatrists consulted the same patient, they gave the same DSM diagnosis only between 32 and 42 percent of the time. Rates of consistency have improved since then…(39)” Does the rate improve with more or less psychiatrists? I would like to think it would improve with more, but in Scott Stossel’s case, it seemed to back up my theory since he had started therapy over 25 years ago when he was 10 years old. Between his multiple therapists and them using…

It was at this time that Eliot’s marriage to his first wife Vivienne Haigh-Wood was failing and the poet was committed to a Swiss sanatorium to recuperate from a nervous disorder. In the same year, Eliot founded the quarterly journal Criterion and served as its editor till its end in 1939. He later joined the publishing house Faber & Faber where he remained for the rest of his career…

The Bell Jar, written by Sylvia Plath, is an outstanding piece of work that focuses on the story of a young woman developing into adult. However, it does not follow the usual procedures of adolescent development into adulthood. Rather than undergoing the progressive education about the world affairs and making a transitioning into adulthood, Esther takes a step back and regresses into madness. All the beginnings of this lady are usually disastrous and disorienting including her first time in New…

of the couple. After Katharine’s birth, Charlotte suffered with severe post-partum depression. During this time if a women claimed to be ill after her child’s birth she was ignored because women were considered nervous beings. Gilman went to a sanatorium in Philadelphia in 1887 where she was treated by Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell, who is the doctor in “The Yellow Wallpaper”. His rest cure included no physical or intellectual stimulation, which meant she couldn’t write. Gilman and Stetson…

began to kick the Jews out of their country. This prejudice made them an easy target for Hitler. He chose to blame them for the economic downfall of Germany. He kept much of what he was doing hidden. In Maus, when Vladeck and Anja ride to Anja’s sanatorium in Czechoslovakia they began to see and hear about the discrimination…

In this essay I will discuss three psychologist I believe to be most influential in the psychological field. Wilhelm Wundt, the first psychologist I shall discuss, contributed to the establishment of psychology being classified as a separate science. He was able to achieve this by, setting up the first psychological laboratory in 1879 in Germany (http://www.simplypsychology.org/wundt.html) with the intention of carrying out experiments in carefully controlled conditions in order to find…

East he was so eager to meet are shallow. In the book, however, the character is more of a quiet observant who captures and analyses every word, every glance and every gesture. Obviously, this character cannot become a patient of a rehabilitation sanatorium trying to get over his alcohol addiction, as Luhrmann had shown him in the movie. Finally, Jay Gatsby himself, despite the undoubted impersonating talent of Leonardo DiCaprio, does not get the full incarnation in the movie. In the Luhrman 's…

lead to misuse of influence,” (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 2008, p. 551). Webster Dictionary defines cuckoo’s nest as “pejorative terms for an insane asylum” (Cuckoo’s Nest, 2015). In the synonym portion, words like insane asylum, nut house, and even sanatorium show up. Nowhere in that definition states anything like “the act of complying; a yielding;…