Freak Days. Insanity and the boundaries of cognition 4018-KON187-CLASS
Issues covered during the course will be divided in two or three weeks blocks, therefore the matter of participation will be important. Blocks will devote some time, during which participants will be able to ask questions, as well as contribute to the discussion. Proposals of subjects can be changed on the participants request, if their needs and preferences will be different. We propose the following subjects.
1-3. Introduction: What are: DSM-IV, ICD-10? Why is it good to go beyond boundaries of this classifications? Why some mental illnesses don't fit in their categories? What do practitioners do, when science doesn't give answers? Black bail and white spots. Genius and madness in 'Problemata XXX' by Aristotle.
4-5. Between aesthetics and insanity: Stendhal Syndrome, Dorian Gray's Syndrome, bigorexia, smilorexia, addiction to cosmetics. Attitudes of New World: asceticism, hedonism, New World Syndrome, orthorexia, borderline. 'Pinel releases madmen from Bicêtre hospital'. Romanticism and 'moral' ways of insanity treatment. Go mad in Paris: Paris Syndrome, Jerusalem Syndrome, Stockholm Syndrome, Oslo Syndrome, Pisa Syndrome.
9-11. Can faith torment oneself? Spiritual starvation, scrupulosity, deformation of consciousness. Psychosis or faith: sleep paralysis, possessions, psychiatry and theology. Nihilism incarnated: Cotard Delusion, Koro.
12. House of Doctor Blanche and his patients: Gérard de Nerval, Charles Gounod, Marie d'Agoult, Théo Van Gogh (Vincent's brother), Guy de Maupassant.
13-15. Substituted identity: mirror agnosia, Capragas delusion, glass delusion, solipsism, somatoparaphrenia
16. The lack of common sense – vitamins and 'vitamins': Piblotoq, Disembodied Lady, psychoactive substances
17-19. Taste, which went wrong?: amok, kuru, Wendigo psychosis, Demon of the South, Black sun of melancholy and the children of Saturn.
20. Dissimilarity of cultures, similarity of symptomes: Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, Tourette syndrome, Latah, Miryachit.
21-22. Contagious syndromes: Couvade Syndrome, Retired Husband Syndrome, Chonic Fatigue Syndrome. Women and insanity (in France) in the age of romanticism.
23-25. Do monsters exist? Clinical lycanthropy, Wild Pig Syndrome, urban legends.
27-28. The murderer's thumb. Insanity(s) and crime(s)
29-30. Between worlds: Ghost illness, Kundalini Syndrome, Susto.
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
Student:
– has basic knowledge on the place and role of the humanities, the social, exact and natural sciences in early and contemporary culture
– is knowing the relationships between humanities disciplines and the exact and natural sciences in a philosophical and social context
– has basic knowledge on the latest achievements of interdisciplinary research methods in the humanities and the social, exact and natural sciences
– is presenting the results of one’s own analysis of research problems in oral, written and multimedia form
– is analysing written and oral academic texts in Polish and in one of the “congress” languages
– is understanding the dynamics of scientific, cultural and social development and keeping up with new research methods and paradigms
Assessment criteria
Oral Exam. Student can release himself from exam by writing two papers: one preliminary in the winter semester (about 3 pages) and one long in the summer (about 10 pages). Papers should be inspired by and expand knowledge gained during the course.
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