Meaning of psychopathography | Babel Free

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A biography with respect to the subject's mental health.

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“The way in which a psychopathography translates psychotic phenomena into linguistic structures determines, in turn⟳, the exten to which such a borderline situation can be conveyed, and even experienced, in the reading process⟳.”

“The same rose-colored impulse has driven an Aspie wave⟳ of revisionist psychopathography, in which such diverse historical figures as Thomas Jefferson, Orson Welles, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Andy Warhol, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are supposed to have⟳ been residents of the spectrum.”

“In the case of both the living and the dead, psychopathography is used to describe⟳ extraordinary traits and enable an explanation for (what we consider⟳) unusual behaviour that enables us to ‘come⟳ to terms’ with the actions. Historical review⟳ achieves thus, what Haridas refers to as a ‘hagiography’ or idealisation of the historical character. For Pol Pot or Hitler, retrospective diagnosis of a mental disorder allows us to come⟳ to terms with atrocity by explaining intent as an aberration of the mind⟳.”

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