Art. III.—MASTURBATION AS A CAUSE OF INSANITY

Insanity, Art and Culture

Insanity, Art and Culture

He sets out to examine the paintings of psychotics, to see if the symptoms shown are due to the illness alone or possibly to cultural background and secondly, whether the symptomatic significance is of universal or irrelevant character. In the course of the investigation various artistic mediums such as sculptoring, needlework and painting are studied. It is very necessary that in a concisely w...

[Art, medical treatment and insanity: a territory in flux].

Based on a combination of clinical and pedagogical experience in occupational therapy, which interlinks artistic practices and therapeutic processes, we carried out a historical study designed to investigate how the fields of mental health and art became interrelated in Brazil between the mid 19th and 20th centuries. The methods used for this research, which is underpinned by the thinking of Fo...

Poverty as a cause and consequence of Ill health

Background and aims: Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon that can be defined in both economic and social terms. The paper attempts to review the existing evidence to understand the relation between poverty and ill health in the context of the limited conceptual and operational definitions of these terms. The paper uses two of Hills criteria- reversibility and dose response relationship to ...

In Defense of Cultural “Insanity”: Using Insanity as a Proxy for Culture in Criminal Cases

Courts in the United States do not recognize a formal “cultural defense” for criminal acts committed by defendants belonging to other cultures. This means that courts ostensibly do not take foreign cultural practices, customs, or beliefs into account in evaluating the guilt of individuals who break U.S. laws. Nonetheless, courts have repeatedly permitted cultural evidence to be introduced as an...