Saturday, March 31, 2012

To Be or Not to be Neuro....or “Neuroticism” is one of the “dimensions”


They think it’s all in their head, when in fact they feel it in their body; they’re fatigued, they have these somatic aches and pains, the pit in the stomach — it’s experienced in the whole body.”

drawing collage by marguerita
In recent years psychiatrists have developed a more specialized medical vocabulary to describe anxiety, the core component of neurosis, and as a result the public has gained a greater appreciation of its many dimensions. But in the process we’ve lost entirely the romance of neurosis, as well as its physical embodiment — a restless, grumbling, needy presence that once functioned in the collective mind as an early warning system, an inner voice that hedged against excessive optimism
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.ttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/sunday-review/where-have-all-the-neurotics-gone.html

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