Download or read book Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology and the Arts written by Michael Sperber and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dostoyevsky's Stalker, we discover how the arts may illuminate psychiatry and psychoanalysis, as well as how these disciplines may elucidate works of literature, art, and cinema. Examining a diversity of authors, artists, historical figures, and psychopaths over the course of modern history, this groundbreaking collection of essays proposes a paradigm shift in psychiatry, based on the idea that some symptoms of mental illness may have constructive uses and may be used by the sufferer for mental and spiritual growth instead of going untreated or else being 'analyzed away.'