title: Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh through the eyes of the German psychiatrist Karl Leonhard in the context of current cultural and medical discussion
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metadata.value: Koryshev, Mikhail
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metadata.value: Ivanova, Ekaterina
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metadata.value: Petersen, Katja
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metadata.value: Schmidt, Katja
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metadata.value: 2020-01-15T09:25:25Z
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metadata.value: 2020-01-15T09:25:25Z
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metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Koryshev M., Ivanova E., Petersen K., Schmidt K. Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh through the eyes of the German psychiatrist Karl Leonhard in the context of current cultural and medical discussion. Scandinavian Philology, 2019, vol. 17, issue 2, pp. 335–349.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2019.210
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16912
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metadata.value: This paper is an attempt to bring together different approaches within the framework
  of anthropology, art history and psychiatry in order to study the treatment of
  the personality and work of Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853–1890) in the last work
  of the famous German psychiatrist Karl Leonhard (1904–1988), the author of the
  book Akzentuierte Persönlichkeiten (EN Accentuated Personalities) well-known to
  Russian readers. The assessments of Karl Leonhard, which reflected a whole period
  both in the history of reception of the work of the Dutch artist in the then divided
  Germany, and in the history of German medicine, are the result of a dialogue between
  the Dutch art culture and the culture of German nosological psychiatry, inscribed
  in the history of the medical discourse of that period and pathographic art
  history. Leonhard made a significant contribution to the study and description of
  the clinical manifestations of endogenous psychoses. Clinical experience leads the
  German psychiatrist to conclude that the diagnosis of schizophrenia, which the Russian
  school is inclined to support, and that of epilepsy are wrong, because the artist
  suffered from anxiety-happiness psychosis, which is a special form of cycloid psychosis. The evidence-based method used by Leonhard is close to the traditions of
  Russian humanistic psychiatry. Despite the fact that Leonhard’s positivist-oriented
  nosological approach is currently being criticized by adherents of the psychoanalytic
  approach in psychiatry, it should be noted that there is no objective evidence that one
  approach excludes the other: in our opinion, they complement each other. Studying
  van Gogh’s letters, the testimonies of his contemporaries, and taking into account the
  data of later works on van Gogh, the authors of this paper reproduce the picture of
  the symptoms of a mental illness, emphasizing the importance of the expansive and
  carefully thought-out classification of Leonhard’s endogenous psychoses and focusing
  on the evidence of fluctuations in the artist’s affect and disturbances of the process
  of perception, his attitude to his own illness from the point of view of psychiatry and
  clinical psychology. In addition, the paper provides an overview of the latest pathographic
  studies of van Gogh and their critical analysis. In conclusion, the authors of
  the paper announce the publication of the full text of Leonhard’s essay in Russian
  translation accompanied by commentary by art critics and medical scholars.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 17; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: van Gogh
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Karl Leonhard
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metadata.value: pathography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-impressionism
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metadata.value: endogenous psychosis
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metadata.value: anxiety-happiness psychosis
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metadata.value: Russian and German schools of psychiatry
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metadata.value: nosological and syndromological approach
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metadata.value: philosophical anthropology
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metadata.value: Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh through the eyes of the German psychiatrist Karl Leonhard in the context of current cultural and medical discussion
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