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274 books — 154 voters

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11 books — 5 voters

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Mental Illness in Fiction - Before the 21st Century

38 books — 9 voters

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Medical and Psychiatric Scandals

66 books — 6 voters

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16 books — 10 voters

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“ The distinction between diseases of "brain" and "mind," between "neurological" problems and "psychological" or "psychiatric" ones, is an unfortunate cultural inheritance that permeates society and medicine. It reflects a basic ignorance of the relation between brain and mind. Diseases of the brain are seen as tragedies visited on people who cannot be blamed for their condition, while diseases of the mind, especially those that affect conduct and emotion, are seen as social inconveniences for whi ...more ”
― António R. Damásio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

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