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Cognitive distortions in the poetry of Anne Sexton.

Cognitive therapists have described cognitive distortions that are frequently associated with depression. These distortions include arbitrary inference, selective abstraction, overgeneralization, magnification and minimization, personalization, and dichotomous thinking, which are often present in suicidal individuals. This article suggests it is useful to conceptualize cognitive distortions in literary terms and uses the professional oeuvre of confessional poet Anne Sexton to identify salient examples.

Cognition Disorders↗

Ethical dilemmas. The new is old.

There are no predictable external cues to ethical dilemmas, therefore, physicians must develop internal sensitivity to these issues. Because there is only a finite number of ethical problems, these recur with predictable frequency. The current essay reviews three books from the literature that present ethical difficulties that were unrecognized until the consequences were obvious. By considering these, and their parallels today, present physicians may avoid the ethical mistakes of their predecessors.

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Balzac and cretinism.

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Congenital Hypothyroidism↗

My wife, my hero.

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The Chinese Nail Murders: forensic medicine in Imperial China.

Robert van Gulik was a respected Dutch sinologist and author who first translated a collection of traditional Chinese detective stories into English and then created additional fictional stories based on the same characters and setting in the Tang dynasty. One of these stories, The Chinese Nail Murders, draws on van Gulik's professional interest in law and his knowledge of early Chinese works on forensic medicine. This novel develops a common theme in Chinese detective fiction, murder by a nail wound to the head. The difficulty in detection of this mode of violence posed a particular problem for the examining magistrate because postmortem examination was mostly limited to external observations. This essay compares the development of Chinese and Western forensic medicine in the context of the nail murder motif.

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'The falling sickness' in literature.

Seizures have been described in literature since early times. Since classical literature reflects the attitudes of society, a review of "the falling sickness" in literature provides some insights into the profound affect of epilepsy. This article explores some great writings describing epilepsy and the changing view of an epileptic as a person being "possessed" to that of one with a medical condition.

Bible↗