Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of pathographic.
Since pathographical writing tends to be so ephemeral, students of pathography will find extremely helpful the special collection developed by Jan Willms at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana.
1999, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, page xvi2 more examples
On the one hand he rejects—in an allusion to Lange—the pathographical application of “crude categories” to such magnificent poetry: “It is quite dangerous to be quick about declaring something 'incomprehensible', therefore 'crazy', to call something void, trivial, farfetched, confused".
2013, Thomas Fuchs, Thiemo Breyer, Christoph Mundt, Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology, page 5Matthias Bormuth (2013) suggests that Jaspers' analysis of Strindberg, Van Gogh, Swedenborg, and Hölderlin is related to a pathographical view—that is, a type of biography that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the person's life.
2015, Ben Dorfman, Ideas in History vol.8:2, page 88
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