Melancholia

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214412662012-01-07T20:23:05.254+01:00MelancholiaTransit Umbra, sed Lux permanetC.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comBlogger4211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-30607945865044998812009-04-11T22:40:00.003+02:002009-04-12T03:12:47.919+02:00Vivere è come amare: la ragione vi è contro, ma ogni sano istinto a favore.

Porträt des Eduard Kosmack, Egon Shiele, 1910.La vie vaut-elle d'être vécue ? Pour la plupart des hommes, vivre se ramène à « faire les gestes que l'habitude commande ». Mais le suicide soulève la question fondamentale du sens de la vie : « Mourir volontairement suppose qu'on a reconnu, même instinctivement, le caractère dérisoire de cette habitude, l'abscence de toute raison profonde de vivre,

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-46479017970564574122009-04-09T08:30:00.004+02:002009-04-09T08:41:48.843+02:00Les passions sont les humeurs élémentaires de l'esprit.

Ecce Homo, Michelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio, 1606.Casida del herido por el aguaQuiero bajar al pozo,quiero subir los muros de Granada,para mirar el corazón pasadopor el punzón oscuro de las aguas.El niño herido gemíacon una corona de escarcha.Estanques, aljibes y fuenteslevantaban al aire sus espadas.¡Ay, qué furia de amor, qué hiriente filo,qué nocturno rumor, qué muerte blanca!¡Qué

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-75447119901561518302009-04-09T08:20:00.003+02:002009-04-09T08:23:05.941+02:00La angustia es la disposición fundamental que nos coloca ante la nada.

Baigneuses, Paul Cézanne, 1906.La angustia es un afecto, un sentimiento que se impone con sensaciones de ahogo, opresión, asfixia y sofoco, por lo tanto, se considera una de las emociones básicas de la estructura anímica del hombre. La angustia es un sentimiento que invade al sujeto y generalmente su causa permanece desconocida para el mismo. Es una señal de peligro, cuando la causa se conoce y

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-36357658082946610582009-04-09T08:07:00.004+02:002009-04-09T08:14:47.867+02:00It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Nature-morte aux trois crânes, Paul Cézanne, 1900.Diagnostic consensus should reflect empirically derived data as well as experience. In the former effort, syndromes are identified as they seem to occur naturally among large groups of patients or in community samples. Rather than assigning each patient to a category predetermined by expert consensus, the sample’s inherent groupings are determined

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-83708036377242271332009-04-09T07:52:00.004+02:002009-04-09T08:07:09.593+02:00Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Les Joueurs de Cartes, Paul Cézanne, 1892. The concept of ‘‘depression’’ has been broadened by targeting tendencies to shyness, social anxiety, and moodiness to justify medication treatment. The rise in the number of approved antidepressant drugs parallels the increase in the variations of depression categories and in the numbers of persons diagnosed as depressed. In theearly 1960s two tricyclic

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-2706835378666282922009-03-26T14:56:00.006+01:002009-03-26T15:05:50.197+01:00La muerte es algo que no debemos temer porque, mientras somos, la muerte no es y cuando la muerte es, nosotros no somos.

La tentación de San Antonio, Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1949. CruzLa cruz. (Punto final del camino) Se mira en la acequia. (Puntos suspensivos.) Federico García Lorca, extracto del "poema del cante jondo", 1921

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-17747339567142890162009-03-24T10:44:00.005+01:002009-03-24T10:50:34.779+01:00L'espoir, au contraire de ce qu'on croit, équivaut à la résignation. Et vivre, c'est ne pas se résigner.

Paul Verlaine, Gustave Courbet,1866.Poèmes Saturniens, Melancholia. Tout enfant, j'allais rêvant Ko-Hinnor,Somptuosité persane et papaleHéliogabale et Sardanapale !Mon désir créait sous des toits en or,Parmi les parfums, au son des musiques,Des harems sans fin, paradis physiques !Aujourd'hui, plus calme et non moins ardent,Mais sachant la vie et qu'il faut qu'on plie,J'ai dû refréner ma belle

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-16915382262590883432009-03-24T10:17:00.003+01:002009-03-24T10:31:22.196+01:00The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Marguerite de Valois, François Clouet, 1572.The Malcontent is a character type often used in early modern drama. The character is discontent with the social structure and other characters in the play. He or she is often an outsider, who observes and offers commentary on the action and may even show awareness that they are in a play. Shakespeare's Richard III and Iago in Othello are typical

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-11520897455630920182009-03-24T09:54:00.005+01:002009-03-24T10:14:27.798+01:00Les illettrés, parce qu'ils ne peuvent voir la vérité à travers l'écriture, la contemplent à travers les contours d'une certaine image.

Lucas Cranach der Ältere, Werwolf, 1512La lypémanie, du grec λυπη, « chagrin », avec μανία, « folie, délire » : tristesse maladive, est un néologisme proposé au début du XIXème siècle par Esquirol pour remplacer mélancolie, dont le sens s'était perdu en tombant dans le domaine extramédical. L'usage du terme en médecine n'a guère survécu à son inventeur.Lypémanie ne doit pas être confondue avec

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-17973566980316702552009-02-07T16:08:00.003+01:002009-02-07T16:24:57.579+01:00Damit der Mensch vor sich Achtung haben kann, muss er fähig sein, auch böse zu sein.

Ivan Aivazovski, Port d'Odessa sur la mer Noire, 1852.The image of depressive illness dramatically changed between 1960 and 1980. Instead of ‘‘depressive reactions’’ and ‘‘manic-depressive illness’’ the disorders in mood were divided by their association with mania or hypomania into bipolar (with) and unipolar (without) categories. The authors of the recent classification took the theoretical

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-84568535105362355102009-01-17T22:20:00.004+01:002009-01-17T22:28:18.120+01:00Das Absurde am Leben macht es erst erträglich.

Le jour des morts, Adolphe William Bouguereau, 1859.The descriptions of melancholia over millennia by medical authorities, writers, and public figures have face validity. The recognition led to the inclusion of ‘‘melancholia’’ in some form in all psychiatric classification systems. This heritage regards melancholia as a disorder in mood accompanied by perturbations in circadian and ultradian

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-76424952168220959742009-01-06T14:50:00.004+01:002009-01-06T14:56:23.630+01:00A lembrança da dor ainda é a dor, a lembrança da felicidade já o deixou de ser.

La Douleur, Jacques Louis David, 1770. En la forest de Longue Attente En la forest de Longue Attente Mon povre cuer tant se garmente D'en saillir par aucune voye Qu'il ne lui semble pas qu'il voye Jamais la fin de son entente.Desconfort le tient en sa tente Qui par telle façon le tente Que j'ay paour qu'il ne se forvoye En la forest de Longue Attente.Espoir en riens ne le contente Comme il

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-69442009083323543652009-01-06T14:36:00.005+01:002009-01-06T14:49:22.797+01:00Le monde est un chaos, et son désordre excède tout ce qu'on y voudrait apporter de remède.

Der Kuß, Gustav Klimt, 1907.Melancholia defined by a specific eventClinicians often ascribe etiologic significance to a special event preceding an episode of mood disorder, but the causal association is not established and the depressive illnesses that occur under such circumstances do not diVer from classical melancholia.Descriptions of postpartum melancholia, vascular or late-life depression,

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-32788724592756960062008-10-02T09:47:00.004+02:002008-10-02T10:01:51.600+02:00The melancholia of everything completed!

Allee im Park von Schloss Kammer, Gustav Klimt, 1912Psychotic depression meets criteria for melancholiaThe manifestations of depressed mood, family history and course of illness, laboratory test findings, and response to treatments are indistinguishable for those with and those without evidence of psychosis. Clinical vignettes are consistent with the view that psychotic depression is a severe

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...hindurchgeweht, die Sehnsucht hat's getrieben. Selbstporträt mit Skelett, Lovis Corinth, 1896.Die Wahrheit und die KunstUm zu verstehen, wie es möglich ist, daß in der Kunst Wahrheit geschieht und schöpferisch Neues hervorgebracht wird, muß die Kunst als sie selbst verstanden werden. Zu ihrem Verständnis dürfen also keine metaphysischen Erklärungen herangezogen werden, die selbst schon eine

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-42461880491058905402008-09-26T17:13:00.004+02:002008-09-26T17:24:56.573+02:00I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

Snow storm, Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1812.Mood-congruent and mood-incongruent delusions In the 1980 DSM classification attention was directed to mood congruence of psychotic thoughts. If the patient’s delusional content was deemed depressive (e.g., low selfworth, guilt), the delusion was defined as congruent with the mood state and the patient was

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-48954713538549368422008-09-26T09:26:00.004+02:002008-09-26T09:38:13.258+02:00Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods

The Slave Ship, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1840.The underlying principle of medieval medicine was the theory of humours. This was derived from the ancient medical works, and dominated all western medicine up until the 19th century. The theory stated that within every individual there were four humours, or principal fluids - black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, and blood, these were produced by

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-75645102904732069652008-09-02T01:50:00.009+02:002008-09-02T02:04:19.930+02:00L'oeil. En lui, il y a l'âme, il y a l'homme qui pense, l'homme qui aime, l'homme qui rit, l'homme qui souffre !

Der Sturz des Ikarus, Pieter Brueghel dem Älteren, 1558.Comme le fait remarquer le pasteur suisse Jean Rilliet : « Lorsqu'on voit l'ascendant que l'«admirable secret» exerça, soit sur Luther, soit sur Zwingli et Bucer, avant de fasciner Calvin, il ne faut pas oublier trois faits. Tout d'abord, que les Réformateurs rencontrèrent la prédestination chez Augustin, celui des auteurs anciens qui les

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-15497689706456052852008-09-02T01:50:00.005+02:002008-09-02T01:59:47.033+02:00Vivre faux ne prédestine pas à écrire juste.

Turmbau zu Babel , Pieter Brueghel dem Älteren, 1563.Si la prolixité de Calvin sur la prédestination visait avant tout à combattre les réserves plus ou moins vives des autres théologiens réformés, comme Sébastien Castellion, elle permit également aux thèses du Réformateur de gagner un grand nombre d'adeptes à l'étranger, notamment aux Provinces-Unies (actuels Pays-Bas) et en Angleterre. De façon

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-73216579069267480382008-08-30T17:02:00.002+02:002008-08-30T17:09:38.852+02:00Le destin c'est simplement la forme accélérée du temps.

Der Mönch am Meer, Caspar David Friedrich, 1809. Souvent perçu comme un fondateur de secte froid et intolérant, Jean Calvin, demeure, malgré la quantité et la qualité des ouvrages qui lui sont consacrés, l'une des figures les plus mal connues et les plus mal jugées de l'histoire du christianisme. Il faut dire aussi que Calvin n'a lui-même pas facilité la tâche de ses historiographes en évitant

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-45418631037065901002008-08-16T17:17:00.005+02:002008-08-16T18:27:39.963+02:00La Raison c'est la folie du plus fort. La raison du moins fort c'est de la folie.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes , Perro Semihundido. Psychotic depression is melancholia Approximately one-third of melancholic patients are psychotic. Psychotic features in melancholia are reported at all ages, although the recognition of psychotic depression increases with the patient’s age. In some reviews nearly all patients with psychotic depression are melancholic.In nineteenth-century

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-56105281032527763372008-08-16T15:31:00.004+02:002008-08-16T18:28:00.233+02:00La diferencia entre literatura y periodismo es que el periodismo es ilegible y la literatura no es leída

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, El Aquelarre, 1797.The scientific evidence fails to distinguish unipolar and bipolar depressive disorders. About 10% of melancholic patients exhibit manic features. The overlap is clearly expressed in the many descriptions of ‘‘mixed’’ and ‘‘spectrum’’ depressive and manic conditions. Patients may exhibit depressive and manic features during the same episode or

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-44115742381116581782008-08-03T18:54:00.002+02:002008-08-16T17:15:38.153+02:00Algunas personas enfocan su vida de modo que vivan con entremeses y guarniciones. El plato principal nunca lo conocen.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, El tres de Mayo de 1808, 1814.Bipolar and unipolar conditions genetically overlapAfter the original studies by Leonhard and by Perris reported that familial diVerences between recurrent depressive illness and manic-depressive illness, subsequent family and genetic studies commonly reported an overlap between the two forms of mood disorder, supporting a unitary

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-43045770598486728882008-08-03T18:51:00.002+02:002008-08-03T18:54:55.532+02:00L'unico senso intimo delle cose è che esse non hanno alcun senso intimo.

Distruzione del secondo membro.§.XIII. A distruzione del secondo membro della successiva principale conseguenza dico, essere pure impossibile che l'acqua sia gibbosa; lo che dimostro così: Sia il cielo dove sono quattro croci, l'acqua dove tre, la terra dove due; ed il centro della terra e dell'acqua concentrica e del cielo sia D. E ritengasi, che l'acqua non può esser concentrica colla terra, se

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-19056060638680830312008-07-29T21:50:00.002+02:002008-07-29T21:55:52.570+02:00Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades.

Prima e seconda supposizione.§.XI. Ad evidenza dunque delle cose da dirsi, due sono le supposizioni da farsi: la prima si è, che l'acqua naturalmente si muove allo ingiù; la seconda, che l'acqua è un corpo labile naturalmente, e non terminabile per termine suo proprio. E se alcuno negasse questi due principii, o l'uno di essi, la determinazione non sarebbe per lui, poichè contra uno che nega i

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-83245990464233535042008-07-23T20:05:00.002+02:002008-07-23T20:08:32.697+02:00Le teorie generali e il nulla sono press'a poco la stessa cosa.

Thomas Cole, The Departure, 1837.Quinta Ragione.§.VII. Parimenti disputavasi in quinto luogo: L'acqua sembra seguire principalmente il moto della Luna, siccome appare nel flusso e riflusso del mare; quindi essendo eccentrico l'orbe lunare, sembra ragionevole che l'acqua nella sua sfera imiti l'eccentricità di quello, e per conseguenza sia eccentrica: e siccome questo non può essere, se non è più

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-69769654829938461712008-07-23T19:58:00.004+02:002008-07-23T20:04:46.629+02:00Chi in un'arte è diventato maestro, può senza danno scordarsi le regole.

Thomas Cole, Falls of Kaaterskill, 1826.Seconda Ragione. §.IV. A più nobile corpo è dovuto più nobile luogo: l'acqua è corpo più nobile della terra; dunque devesi all'acqua luogo più nobile. Ed essendo tanto più nobile il luogo, quanto è superiore pel suo approssimarsi di più al nobilissimo de' continenti, ch'è il primo cielo; dunque ecc. Tralascio, che il luogo dell'acqua sia più alto di quello

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-9045590171541431682008-07-16T16:12:00.002+02:002008-07-16T16:20:53.938+02:00Il voto nasce quando la speranza more

Luca d'Egidio di Ventura, Affresco Apocalissi, 1499 - Duomo di Orvieto A tutti ed a ciascuno in particolare, che questo scritto vedranno, Dante Allighieri, il minimo fra' veri filosofi, augura salute in Colui, ch'è principio e lume della verità.§.I. Sia manifesto a voi tutti, come, essendo io in Mantova, insorse una certa quistione, la quale amplificata assai volte, rimanevasi più in apparenza,

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-79242389352776867302008-07-10T07:48:00.003+02:002008-07-10T08:00:05.279+02:00Me apresuro a reirme de todo, ante el miedo de ser obligado a llorar por ello.

Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος , Sagrada Familia con Santa Ana, 1590.The induction of mania by antidepressant treatments is often cited as support for a mood disorder dichotomy. When tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) were introduced, concepts of unipolar and bipolar depression were not in use, so that the treatment was oVered to all patients who met criteria for a

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Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος , La visión del Apocalipsis, 1614.In yet another study seeking to reinforce the image of a bipolar mixed state to encompass psychotic agitated depression, 336 outpatients with major depressive episodes without a history of mania were identified. Based on evidence of hypomania, 206 were assigned to bipolar II and 130 to major depressive disorder.The investigators found

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-58262169294119412352008-07-07T19:11:00.004+02:002008-07-07T19:18:43.701+02:00L'art de vivre consiste à sacrifier une passion basse à une passion plus haute.

Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer , Caspar David Friedrich, wohl 1817.Olhos de rubros fogos, infernais,Olhos que se enfeitiçam, feiticeiros,Olhos que por instantes flamejais,Olhos fortes, ferventes, fervilheiros...Olhos de verde mar, mananciais,Olhos que se deságuam, aguadeiros,Olhos que por instantes marejais,Olhos meigos, marinhos, marinheiros...Olhos de magnetismos pessoais,Olhos de paixões

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-78413669213017455062008-07-04T09:51:00.004+02:002008-07-04T10:02:34.458+02:00Falling ill is not something that happens to us, it is a choice we make as a result of things happening to us

Иван Константинович Айвазовский, кораблекрушение, 1876. A prospective longitudinal study of 86 patients with the bipolar II designation reexamined patients at 6- and 12-month intervals over a mean course of 13.4 years. The patients were symptomatic in 53.9% of all follow-up weeks. Depressive symptoms occurred in 50.3% of the weeks and dominated over hypomanic symptoms (1.3% of weeks) and over

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Ivan Aivazovski, Storm, 1854.CrépusculeL'étang mystérieux, suaire aux blanches moires,Frisonne; au fond du bois la clairière apparaît ;Les arbres sont profonds et les branches sont noires ;Avez-vous vu Vénus à travers la forêt ?Avez-vous vu Vénus au sommet des collines ?Vous qui passez dans l'ombre, êtes-vous des amants ?Les sentiers bruns sont pleins de blanches mousselines;L'herbe s'éveille et

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Raffaello Sanzio, Le Tre Grazie, 1505.Despite the heterogeneity in both the bipolar and unipolar groups, the breadth of reported ipolar–unipolar diVerences is impressive. They include four separate spheres of data-enetic,clinical, biological and pharmacological. Bipolar and recurrent unipolar disorders,nevertheless, appear to be very similar in some important respects (e.g., prophylactic response

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-40826034232005800322008-06-25T07:58:00.009+02:002008-06-25T08:17:52.373+02:00An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Marcantonio Bassetti, Adorazione dei pastori, 1615.In psychiatric classifications today, mood disorders are divided along the faultline of the presence or absence of manic or hypomanic periods in the patient’s personal history. The 1980 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) classification recognized a disorder of depressed mood as a major depression. The presence of mania or hypomania, either

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Joseph Wright, The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone, 1771.The recent literature has equally compelling descriptions. In a memoir of his illness, the novelist William Styron oVers a poignant description of melancholia. After depending on alcohol ‘‘as a conduit to fantasy and euphoria, and to the enhancement of the imagination’’ for more than 40 years, he was suddenly unable to drink

C.R.http://www.blogger.com/profile/00215506597143649254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21441266.post-75735747264304875192008-06-21T14:38:00.003+02:002008-06-21T14:48:36.843+02:00Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.

Die Anatomie des Dr. Tulp, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1632Porphyria's LoverThe rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,and did its worst to vex the lake:I listened with heart fit to break.When glided in Porphyria; straightShe shut the cold out and the storm,And kneeled and made the cheerless grateBlaze up, and all the cottage warm;Which done, she rose

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A Favourite Custom, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1909. The validity of the DSM depression criteria has been questioned. In an examination of comorbidity in twins and the occurrence of future episodes to validate externally the DSM depression criteria, the number of symptoms (the hallmark of the criteria), their duration, and resulting impairment did not predict the presence of depressive illness in a

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Melancholia syndromes as commonly labeled in present classifications :Manic-depressive illnessMelancholic ‘‘major’’ depression (unipolar depression)Manic-depressive depression (bipolar depression)Psychotic depressionCatatonic and stuporous depressionPuerperal depressionAbnormal bereavement

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John William Waterhouse, Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 1909. Pathological mood is expressed as pervasive and unremitting apprehension and gloom that colors all cognitive processes, resulting in a loss of interest, decreased concentration, poor memory, slowed thinking, feelings of failure and low self-worth, and thoughts of suicide. Regardless of antecedent events, whether a personal loss or a

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Giovanni Bellini, Pietà, 1505.Melancholia (n.) - c.1303, ‘‘condition characterized by sullenness, gloom, irritability,’’ from O.Fr. melancholie, from L. L. melancholia, from Gk. melankholia ‘‘sadness,’’ lit. ‘‘black bile,’’ from melas (gen. melanos) ‘‘black’’ (see melanin) þ khole ‘‘bile.’’ Medieval physiology attributed depression to excess of ‘‘black bile,’’ a secretion of the spleen and one of

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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Aurore enlevant Céphale, 1813. Instead of looking to an unsure future classification based on models and studies yet to be reported, there is merit in a simplified classification of the mood disorders based on the classical principles of clinically defined signs and symptoms and course of illness, as oVered by nineteenth-century psychopathologists. The psychodynamic and

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Joan Miró, El puerto, 1945.Lo meo servente coreLo meo servente corevi raccomandi Amor, che vi l'ha dato,e Merzé d'altro latodi me vi rechi alcuna rimembranza;ché, del vostro valoreavanti ch'io mi sia guari allungato,mi tien già confortatodi ritornar la mia dolce speranza.Deo, quanto fie poca addimoranza,secondo il mio parvente:ché mi volge soventela mente per mirar vostra sembianza;per che ne lo

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The day dream, 1872.Bipolar disorder was distinguished as a separate class by the occurrence of excitement, distractibility, agitation, and talkativeness in the patient’s life history. Parallel to the subtyping in the DSM category of major depression, the bipolar disorders weredivided into bipolar I with a single manic episode (with more recent episode mixedor depressed or

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Holy Grail, 1860.By the late 1960s it was no longer acceptable to treat all depressed patients as if they were suVering from a single condition because some treatments were eVective for some patients and not for others. One group, for example, examined 33 studies that had assessed medication treatments of depression and could not find a diagnostic formulation that had

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Salvador Felipe Jacinto Dalí Domènech, Buste de Voltaire, 1940."No soy yo quien grita"¡Cuidado! ¡Cuidado! ¡El diablo ha enloquecido!Escóndete en el fondo limpio de los manantiales,fúndete al cristal de la ventana,ocúltate tras los fuegos de los diamantes,bajo las piedras, entre los insectos,escóndete en el pan recién salido del horno.Oh, Tú, pobre, mi pobre.Con el fresco aguacero fíltrate en la

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Death Crowning Innocence, George Frederick Watts, 1896MamanHuit jours déjà que je ne pense qu’à maman,tout le temps, en m’arrêtant,son panier grinçant dans les bras,elle montait au grenier,montait de vifs pas, décidés.A l’époque, l’homme sincère qui j’étais,je hurlais, je tapais du piedqu’elle laisse le linge lavé à d’autres,qu’elle me prenne moi dans ses bras et,au grenier, qu’elle me

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Dieric Bouts, Der Abendmahlsaltar, 1464.New typologies were envisioned as the basis for more evective prescription of the available treatments. Altered mood states were now labeled as vital or personal, primary or secondary, atypical, vegetative, endogenomorphic depressions and anxious thymopathy.In an unusual study, Klein and Fink (1962a, 1962b) randomly assigned patients of varying diagnoses (

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Hieronymus Bosch , Rechter Innenflügel, 1504.Meyer stated that depressive mood disorders were individualized ‘‘reactions’’:The conditions which we meet in psychopathology are more or less abnormal reaction types, which we want to learn to distinguish from one another, trace to the situation or condition under which they arise, and study for their modifiability.Meyer’s formulations were adopted in

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A contemporary, Denis Hill (1968), found no merit in the subdivisions of the mood disorders, concluding that the treatments defined the condition:It is a striking fact that the antidepressant drugs and ECT have their profoundest therapeutic eVect when the primary functional changes of depression are most in evidence and that, given these, the secondary symptoms disappear as the primary functional

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Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Le Retour de Marcus Sextus, 1799. The concept of melancholia was brought to life in the description.Melancholia is a depressed state [meaning subdued, not a diagnostic category] of the entirepersonality reaction. Depression of spirits, psychomotor retardation and general torpidity of mind and body are its essential features. Invariably associated with these are insomnia,

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Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse, La Musique, 1907.For mania, Kraepelin described a progression in severity from hypomania to mania to delirious mania. For melancholia, he described a parallel progression of simple retardation, retardation with delusions and hallucinations, and stuporous conditions.Various attempts to distinguish depressive mood disorders were made. One attempt divided depressed

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Claude Monet, La Promenade, 1875.The lack of a coherent formulation of psychiatric disorders encouraged two camps to develop, one dividing the behaviors into many conditions and the other oVering a single disorder of the brain as the basis for many forms of psychiatric illness.The single cause for psychiatric disorders was formulated when anatomic studies showed diverse forms of mental illness to

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Beata Beatrix, 1863.In the nineteenth century melancholia was recognized as a core illness among many forms of insanity. One writer defined six classes of insanity: melancholia, mania, fatuitas, stupiditas, amentia, and oblivio’’. Another oVered five ‘‘species’’ of insanity: melancholia, mania with and without delirium, dementia, and idiocy. Yet another author divided

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John Duncan, The coming of the bride, 1918. In western Europe from the tenth to the eighteenth centuries, mental disorders were often ascribed to demons and witchcraft.11 Relief was theorized to come with exorcism. The medical teachings that psychiatric disorders resulted from aberrations in the brain were oYcially denied. Many physicians, however, continued to recognize melancholia as disease.

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Hieronymus Bosch, Ecce Homo, 1490.Melancholia is a concept of depressive illness with an extensive literature and a detailed history. Its recognition as a form of ‘‘madness’’ with ‘‘bodily causes’’ has been consistent for 3000 years. Except for two periods in western history – the Middle Ages, when church teachings dominated western thought, and again in the twentieth century, particularly in the

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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy, Le sommeil d'Endymion, 1791.Neurosyphilis is an interesting neuropsychiatric disorder that oVered a potpourri of images and therapies. So varied were its presentations that clinicians dubbed it the ‘‘great imitator.’’ Descriptions filled volumes, but once the common cause was identified and a laboratory test developed, the variations assumed less significance.An

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Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson. Funéirailles d'Atala. 1808 Depression, most people know, used to be termed ‘‘melancholia’’. . . Melancholia would still appear to be a far more apt and evocative word for the blacker forms of the disorder, but it was usurped by a noun with a bland tonality and lacking any magisterial presence, used indiVerently to describe an economic decline or a rut in the

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William Bouguereau , Après le bain, 1875.Amo o teu túmido candor de astroa tua pura integridade delicadaa tua permanente adolescência de segredoa tua fragilidade acesa sempre altivaPor ti eu sou a leve segurança de um peitoque pulsa e canta a sua chamaque se levanta e inclina ao teu hálito de pássaroou à chuva das tuas pétalas de prataSe guardo algum tesouro não o prendoporque quero oferecer-te a

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Dans une étude de la médecine dans le monde occidental, on se tourne inévitablement vers la ville de Bologne, en Italie. C’est dans cette cité que l’ ars medendi et curandi s’est séparé, en tant que discipline, de la théologie, de la philosophie et du droit. C’est là que, par le choix d’une petite partie des écrits de Galien, le corps de la médecine a établi sa souveraineté sur un territoire

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Comment parler de la mélancolie dans l’art sans partir du geste caractéristique de l’iconographie de la mélancolie : la tête appuyée sur une main (voire les deux) pour contrebalancer sa propre lourdeur? Dans le mot allemand Schwermut, tout est dit : c’est une humeur lourde, pesante. Et nous voilà tout de suite au cœur de l’histoire de la mélancolie : Saturne-Chronos, le dieu de la mélancolie a

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Pôle céleste En astronomie, les deux pôles célestes sont les points de la sphère céleste vers lesquels pointe l'axe de rotation de la Terre et autour desquels le ciel semble donc tourner. Ces pôles célestes sont des points de référence importants pour les astronomes et les géographes et la détermination de leur position sur la voûte céleste est fondamentale. L'axe de rotation de la Terre n'est

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The Zodiac derives from the yearly path Sol (our sun) seemingly takes across particular constellations, which is why there are twelve astrological signs. Or, at least, there were 12... when the Zodiac was created a few thousand years ago. In the solar cycle, there are 12 months, but the lunar cycle has 13. The Mayans recognized 13 star signs. 13 was significant in ancient Celtic society,

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Ophiuchus (Οφιούχος)α Oph : رأس الحية ( The Head of the Serpent-charmer).η Oph :سابقOphiuchus was formerly referred to as Serpentarius (/ˌsɚpənˈtɛəriəs/), the former originating in Greek and the latter in Latin, both meaning "serpent-holder". It is a large constellation located around the celestial equator between Aquila, Serpens and Hercules, northwest of the center of the Milky Way. The

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Like all other calendars, the Babylonian calendar had twelve lunar months (about 354 days) and a problem to make these fit the solar year (about 365 days). In the western calendar, this is solved by cutting the tie between the lunar phase and the calendar month; the Babylonians found a different solution by adding leap months. Originally, the king decided which month had to be added ("

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La Terre est toujours immobile au centre du système solairemais les planètes tournent autour du SoleilMouvement apparent des planètesPendant la majeure partie de son histoire, de l'antiquité jusqu'au XIXe siècle, les astronomes ont été limités à l'étude du mouvement apparent des planètes dans le ciel. Avant d'aborder l'histoire de l'astronomie, il n'est donc pas inutile de brièvement rappeler

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Coordonnées polaires , coordonnées paramétriques Dans un repère orthonormé (Ox,Oy) direct, orienté par le sens trigonométrique usuel (sens inverse des aiguilles d'une horloge ou d'une montre... à aiguilles), un point M(x,y) (coordonnées cartésiennes) peut être repéré par ses coordonnées polaires : le pôle est l'origine O, Ox est l'axe polaire. Soit t = ^(Ox,OM) l'angle de rotation amenant l'axe (

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Taurus (Ταύρος) Feminine and negative sign. Earth and fixed sign.From April 20 to May 20. Sidereal from May 15 and June 16.Venus.Pleiades : Πλειάδες ( Known since antiquity to cultures all around the world) Seven sisters along their parents ( Ἄτλας and Πλειόνη)Alpha tauri : « Aldebaran (Fallen Angel)» الدبرانBeta Tauri : النطحGamma tauri : ΑμβροσιηDelta Tauri : ΕυδωρηApis “ bull god”Sarapis :

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Virgo Zodiac date :August 22 - September 23True Date : September 16 - October 30Virgo is earthy and represents the sixth sign of the zodiac.feminine, and introvert negative sign.Also amutable sign. Is the second largest constellation after Hydra. She dropped a sheaf of grain, which scattered all along the path she took. This path is now known to the Chinese as the Yellow Road. Virgo is the

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Egon Schiele, Egon Schiele, 1910.

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Weiblicher Akt, Egon Schiele, 1910.

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Estas cartas son una clara demostración de nuestra hipótesis de que la angustia, la melancolía y el dolor son de algún modo necesarios para el gran acto creador. Estamos seguros de que así como Rilke, casi todos los genios han sufrido tanto de esos períodos de aparente depresión en los que su creatividad se apaga como de esta otra angustia, diferente a la neurótica, que es la que les permite

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El poeta reconoce aquí claramente su enfermedad , o al menos el estado de permanente malestar, angustia e incapacidad en que se encuentra, pero al mismo tiempo espera salir de él y recuperar el flujo creativo; aún más, él admira esta extraña conformación de su naturaleza que renace una y otra vez desde el abismo de la angustia y la melancolía, "avanzando de salvación en salvación". El mismo

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Angustia, melancolía y creatividada ( Continuación)Este sufrimiento del alma y del cuerpo, que no tenía ninguna explicación desde el punto de vista de la medicina somática (los primeros síntomas de la leucemia aparecieron diez años más tarde), estos estados de angustia y depresión, con la improductividad consecuente y que lo llevan hasta el extremo de la desesperación en el momento en que insinúa

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Ritratto di giovane (La Fornarina), Raffaello Sanzio, 1518.

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Venus and Adonis (9/10)William Shakespeare (1593) More I could tell, but more I dare not say;The text is old, the orator too green.Therefore, in sadness, now I will away;My face is full of shame, my heart of teen:Mine ears, that to your wanton talk attended,Do burn themselves for having so offended.'With this, he breaketh from the sweet embrace,Of those fair arms which bound him to her breast,And

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Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother , James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1871.L'absurde :(à la limite du tragique, peut-être même s'en distinguant) C'est autour des méfaits de cette même vérité (le nœud mortel de la connaissance mélancolique réside dans l'accès à une vérité trop précoce) que nous verrons la mélancolie présider à l'angoisse existentielle, traduite cette

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Vuelo de Brujas, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, 1798. El mundo de la brujería estaba muy en boga en los años finales del siglo XVIII. A pesar de los desvelos de la Ilustración por eliminar la superstición de la sociedad española, lo demoniaco atraía a buena parte de los españoles sin distinción de clase social. Goya no es ajeno a este tema, ya sea para criticarlo o para reflejar sus

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Apolo y Marsias, El Españoleto (José o Jusepe Ribera), 1637.Marsias era un joven frigio que desafió a Apolo a un concurso de flauta. Las Musas declararon vencedor a Apolo y el dios, para castigar a Marsias por su soberbia y audacia, lo ató a un árbol y lo desolló vivo. Ribera repitió el tema en varias ocasiones, eligiendo el momento del castigo. Marsias aparece en un pronunciado escorzo -que

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San Pablo, Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez, 1618.Ésta es una excelente muestra de la etapa juvenil de Velázquez, influida profundamente por Caravaggio. El sevillano pone de manifiesto su dominio del retrato al dar la imagen de un hombre de carne y hueso, captado directamente del natural y envuelto en una amplísima túnica en la que destacan los pliegues casi escultóricos. La figura del santo

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Cabeza de apóstol, Diego Rodríguez de Silva Velázquez, 1618-23.La similitud entre esta cabeza y el San Pablo hacen pensar que estamos ante un trabajo preparatorio, a pesar de estar en diferentes posturas. Velázquez ha estudiado perfectamente los rasgos de un anciano de la calle, destacando las bolsas de sus ojos y las arrugas de la frente, incluso la suciedad del rostro, eliminando todo tipo de

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Die Nachtwache, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1642.Das Gemälde ist sehr dunkel, manche Details im Hintergrund lassen sich kaum noch ausmachen. Ob es im Verlauf der Zeit natürlich nachgedunkelt ist oder Restauratoren im 17. Jahrhundert, wie sie es gern taten, mit einem gelb-braunen Firnis dem Bild zu einem sogenannten „Galerie-Ton“ verhalfen, ist nicht geklärt. Im Mittelpunkt des Bildes steht

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Vieja y Monje, José de Goya y Lucientes, 1824. Los espectaculares rostros de estos dos personajes ponen esta escena en sintonía con las Pinturas Negras realizadas por Goya unos años antes de esta serie de miniaturas en marfil.Algo similar ocurre con Niños mirando un libro. La asustada mirada de la anciana podría ser una alusión al mundo de la superstición que también aparece en los Caprichos.

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The RavenONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door --Only this, and nothing more."Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,And

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La genesi della Divina CommediaInfernoI precedenti a cui Dante si ispira per il suo Inferno sono di derivazione sia classica che biblica.Per quanto riguarda i viaggi ultraterreni di tradizione classica, Dante conosceva quelli di Orfeo, di Teseo, di Ercole e di Ulisse, ma fu particolarmente ispirato dal viaggio nell'Ade di Enea, narrato da Virgilio nel VI libro dell'Eneide.Dante conosceva, inoltre

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NevermoreSouvenir, souvenir, que me veux-tu ? L'automneFaisait voler la grive à travers l'air atone,Et le soleil dardait un rayon monotoneSur le bois jaunissant où la bise détone.Nous étions seul à seule et marchions en rêvant,Elle et moi, les cheveux et la pensée au vent.Soudain, tournant vers moi son regard émouvant :"Quel fut ton plus beau jour ?" fit sa voix d'or vivant,Sa voix douce et

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Su carta del 14 de Enero de 1912 le describe su estado de alma con las siguientes palabras: "Usted... está enterado de como yo , desde hace dos años, estoy aquí tendido y no hago nada, como si intentara incorporarme agarrándome de uno o de otro que pasa por mi lado y viviendo del tiempo y de la capacidad de escuchar de aquellos a los que induzco a permanecer a mi lado.Es propio de este estado el

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Rilke murió de una leucemia en Diciembre de 1926. El empeoramiento de su estado físico, que lo llevó a la muerte, se produjo a raíz de haberse pinchado con la espina de una rosa mientras cuidaba el jardín del castillo Muzot, en Suiza, donde vivió retirado los últimos años de su vida. Sin duda que su muerte fue una muerte poética y en ese sentido, una "muerte propia", ésa que debe calzarle a uno "

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Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl, James McNeill Whistler, 1862.

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Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, James McNeill Whistler, 1875.

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At the Piano, James McNeill Whistler, 1859.

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Angelica cura Medoro, Matteo Rossellini, v. 1620.

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Angelica und Medor, Abraham Bloemaert, 1511.

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Angélique et Médor, Jacques Blanchard, 1634.

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Pâris et Hélène, Jacques-Louis David, 1786.

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L'Amour et Psyché, Jacques-Louis David, 1817.

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Orpheus vertraut auf die Hilfe der Unterweltsgotter, Pieter Paul Rubens, 1635.Primi PoemettiI due fanciulli - I due orfani"I due orfani"IFratello, ti do noia ora, se parlo?»«Parla: non posso prender sonno». «Io sentorodere, appena...» «Sarà forse un tarlo...»«Fratello, l'hai sentito ora un lamentolungo, nel buio?» «Sarà forse un cane...»«C'è gente all'uscio...» «Sarà forse il vento...»«Odo due

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L'origine della Via Lattea, Jacopo Robusti detto Tintoretto, 1575.Tachicardia, sudorazione improvvisa, tremore, sensazione di soffocamento, dolore al petto, nausea, paura di morire o di impazzire, brividi o vampate di calore, sono solo alcuni dei sintomi che caratterizzano un attacco di panico.Chi l’ha provato la descrive come un esperienza terribile, spesso improvvisa ed inaspettata, almeno la

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Adam und Eva, Albrecht Dürer, 1507.Mit den beiden Gemälden von Adam und Eva hat Dürer die ersten lebensgroßen Akte der deutschen Malerei geschaffen. Er hat sich dabei vor allem auf die Proportionen des menschlichen Körpers konzentriert, dessen Größe auf die mit neun multiplizierte Höhe des Kopfes geschätzt wird, während die Größe der Personen auf einem zuvor angefertigten Kupferstich (1504) zu

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