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Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. 287 pages."Between April 1921 and August 1924, Aby Warburg, the brilliant art historian and cultural scientist, was an inmate in the Bellevue sanatorium in Kreuzlingen, where he had been admitted after a severe psychotic breakdown - he had threatened to kill himself and his family. The head of the psychiatric hospital was Ludwig Binswanger, an important psychiatrist whose findings were to profoundly change the approach to mental illness. Until now, not much else was generally known from this time other than that Warburg gave the famous lecture to his fellow patients about the snake ritual of the Hopi Indians. In fact, he repeatedly had periods of mental clarity and creative productivity during his illness. Binswanger's medical reports document delusions, aggressiveness towards staff, phobias and compulsive hygiene rituals. Warburg, who considered himself "incurably schizoid,"… Read More
