Modern myths and medical consumerism : the Asclepius complex / Antonio Karim Lanfranchi ; translated by Jonathan Hunt

Author: Lanfranchi, Antonio Karim, 1967-
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Date: ©2018
Physical Description: viii, 158 pages ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators: Hunt, Jonathan

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Research in analytical psychology and Jungian studies series

Contents

Machine generated contents note: pt. I A metapsychology of the doctor's consciousness -- 1.The story of Asclepius -- The birth of Asclepius and the symbolic origins of medicine -- Asclepius's childhood, from Chiron to Prometheus -- The Asklepieions and the medical tradition -- Beyond Prometheus: the end of tragedy and the coming of dialectic --- the rational origins of medicine -- Nature personified: Pan -- The Asclepius complex: the descent and death of the god -- Chiron and unrepressed death -- Asclepius's progeny: the breaking up of the archetype and the beginnings of specialization -- The wounded healer: the present-day relevance of the myth of Asclepius -- 2.Alfred Ziegler's archetypal medicine -- pt. II Medicine and society in our time -- 3.Modern myths in medicine -- `Necessary' repression -- The neurosis of life -- Repression of death and systemic waste: a `cultural' cause of superfluity? -- The mythology of everyday life -- 4.Narcissus's mirror -- Narcissus and the shadow -- The loss of the sense of limit -- Examples of omnipotent solitude -- Epilogue: the weight of limit and unlimited hope -- 5.The illusory nature of concretism -- The inner spectator, the harpsichord -- 6.Considerations on courage -- Courage in our time -- St Anthony's Fire -- Perseus's courage: the indirect vision -- pt. III Life hanging by a thread -- 7.Illness as an experience of the soul -- The experience of illness and furor sanandi -- Solitude in serious illness -- Time only is our own -- Life hanging by a thread -- 8.The globalization of medicine: towards an ecological medicine.

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9780815348221 (hardcover)
0815348223 (hardcover)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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