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Gabor S Ungvari1,2, Stanley N Caroff3,4, Levente Csihi5
1Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia.
Abstract:
In the award-winning and widely-acclaimed fictional novel, The Vegetarian, the author, Han Kang, relates a compelling and dramatic story of inexorable psychotic deterioration from the perspective of a tragically affected young woman and her close family members. Apart from a variety of interpretations of psychosis from historical, social, psychological, and feminist perspectives, the book also presents a detailed and realistic picture of objective psychotic symptoms that reveals insights into historic and nearly forgotten phenomenological concepts. In this literary case study, we analyze the symptoms remarkably described by the author and briefly review the medical literature on the phenomena of catatonia, schizophrenic autism, paragnomen and the praecox-feeling.
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