Tag: borderline personality disorder
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The Dead Mother Series of Egon Schiele: psychoanalytic use of an artist’s image
Prudence L. Gourguechon Paper presented at the Hektoen Institute of Medicine on Nov. 6, 2007Revised for publication in Hektoen International, Vol. 2, Jan. 2009 Introduction Two intensely creative men lived and worked in early 20th century Vienna, both intent on elucidating aspects of the darker side of the human psyche. There is no evidence that…
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If Cleopatra were alive today, she would be diagnosed as a borderline personality
Jonathan Lewis Chicago, Illinois, United States The death of Cleopatra Reginald Arthur, d. 1896 Roy Miles Gallery, London For anyone with the temerity to write about Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf has this amusing warning: “Shakespeare is flyblown; a paternal government might well forbid writing about him…one may hazard one’s conjectures privately, make one’s notes in…