His own book, however, turns out to be another exercise in what Joyce Carol Oates has called " pathography, " a form of biography that pays scant attention to an artist's work and instead focuses on his dysfunctional relationships and his slide into disrepute.
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In the hands of another biographer, Dodgson's story might well have become a prime example of what Joyce Carol Oates has called " pathography, " one of those sensationalistic, voyeuristic works that focus on " dysfunction and disaster, " foolishness and failure.
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But when Redlich discovered that there were few substantive works on Hitler's medical condition, the psychiatrist says, he decided to go further, constructing what he calls a " pathography, " or " study of the life and character of an individual, as influenced by disease ."
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Fromm s pathography follows largely Sigmund Freud's concept of psychoanalysis and states that Hitler was an immature, self-centered dreamer who did not overcome his childish narcissism; as a result of his lack of adaptation to reality he was exposed to humiliations which he tried do overcome by means of lust-ridden destructiveness ( " necrophilia " ).
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If Waterfield's " Prophet " is pathography, " Kahlil Gibran : Man and Poet, " by the Lebanese scholar Suheil Bushrui and his colleague Joe Jenkins, both of the Kahlil Gibran Research and Studies Project at the University of Maryland, breaks new ground, falling into a category that lies somewhere in between hagiography and history.
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After a fascinating opening section detailing Millay's impoverished, emotionally fraught childhood in Maine, where she and her two sisters more or less brought themselves up with little parental supervision, the book devolves into a tedious pathography, describing in numbing detail the poet's health problems, addictions ( to morphine, sleeping pills and alcohol ) and seductions of assorted men and women.
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It is a book that takes the dubious genre of pathography _ a form of biography, in Joyce Carol Oates'words, that focuses on " dysfunction and disaster, illnesses and pratfalls " _ to a disturbing new level, a book that builds upon Albert Goldman's gruesome 1981 biography to create a portrait of the artist as a permanent resident of the heartbreak hotel, virtually destined from birth to be lonely and unhappy.
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"And an amazing account it is, " wrote Joel D . Howell about " a rhapsodic tale of wonder, of noble beauty and mundane tragedy, a tale like none other; it is a tale-- as the title states-- about'raising the dead .'Selzer has written many books, but none as moving and profound as this one . " As seen in another pathography, Dr . Paul Kalanithi's 2015 memoir, " When Breath Becomes Air ", Selzer is also a doctor who writes his own illness narrative about being a patient in " Raising the Dead " . " In this tour de force, " wrote Howell, " Richard Selzer has given us one writer's truth about life and illness and, perhaps, death ."
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We must wait longer . " In " The New York Times ", Michiko Kakutani thought that the authors had done " an energetic job of finding sources and persuading them to talk " but the books's " Internet-age narrative " and " sloppy scholarship, " made it " a sprawling, cut-and-paste collage . " Writing in " London Guardian ", Sam Leith said that the volume contained " new and fascinating nuggets " and " isn't worthless . " But he summarized it as " vast, silly, boastful, prurient, intellectually incoherent and basically philistine " and " a frustrating hodgepodge . " " [ M ] uch of what is in here has no real bearing on Salinger's works themselves, " wrote Martin Rubin in " The Washington Times ", " and is simply yet another contribution to what Joyce Carol Oates pungently termed pathography . " Rubin also wrote that the book was " well-presented and valuable & consistently interesting . " Louis Bayard of " The Washington Post " wrote that " the book offers the most complete rendering yet of Salinger's World War II service, the transformative trauma that began with the D-Day invasion and carried through the horrific Battle of H�rtgen Forest and the liberation of a Dachau subcamp . " But he criticized many other elements of the book, writing, " It contains no index.
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