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The Brain Disorders Debate, Chekhov, and Mental Health Humanities

The contemporary brain disorders debate echoes a century-long conflict between two different approaches to mental suffering: one that relies on natural sciences and another drawing from the arts and humanities. We review contemporary neuroimaging studies and find that neither side has won. The study...

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Autores principales: Valtonen, Jussi, Lewis, Bradley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10491527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36961674
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09786-1
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spelling pubmed-104915272023-09-10 The Brain Disorders Debate, Chekhov, and Mental Health Humanities Valtonen, Jussi Lewis, Bradley J Med Humanit Article The contemporary brain disorders debate echoes a century-long conflict between two different approaches to mental suffering: one that relies on natural sciences and another drawing from the arts and humanities. We review contemporary neuroimaging studies and find that neither side has won. The study of mental differences needs both the sciences and the arts and humanities. To help develop an approach mindful of both, we turn to physician-writer Anton Chekhov’s story “A Nervous Breakdown.” We review the value of the arts and humanities as a coequal partner with natural sciences in the creation of a robust mental health humanities. Springer US 2023-03-24 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10491527/ /pubmed/36961674 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09786-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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