Someday, I will hear the tabla, whose rhythm
no EKG can capture and no cardiologist
can interpret. The music will
take me back to the lotus pond
our old home in the village of Sultanpur:
then, I will drift away on the fallen petals.
Eines Tages werde ich die Tabla hören, deren Rhythmus
kein EKG aufnehmen und kein Kardiologe
interpretieren kann. Die Musik wird
mich zum Lotusteich zurückbringen
an unser altes Haus im Dorf Sultanpur:
dann werde ich auf fallenden Blütenblättern wegtreiben.
Link zur Neuerscheinung bei K&N:
Doctors, Poets, and Rebels, Ärzte, Dichter und Rebellen
Early traces of Psychosomatics in fiction and particularly in drama can be found in pathbreaking texts by Friedrich Schiller, Georg Büchner, and Arthur Schnitzler. These medical doctors pay close attention to the mind-body problem. They transfer their observations into poetry, creating world literature. As sons of doctors, they rebelled against their fathers as well as some of the dominant concepts of medicine and society.
Friedrich Schiller. It were the plays about freedom: „Die Räuber “(1782) „Don Carlos “(1787) and „Wilhelm Tell “(1804) which established Friedrich Schiller’s fame; Schiller, son of a surgeon (Wundarzt), studied medicine at the military academy in Stuttgart. Before the successful premiere of “Die Räuber” in Mannheim, the budding regimental doctor has drawn up three academic studies dealing with philosophic, physiologic, and psychosomatic issues.
Georg Büchner. The playwriter and private lecturer Georg Büchner can be considered a precursor of Psychosomatics within scientific medicine”. His father was a surgeon and the district doctor of Darmstadt. Georg Büchner’s fierce debates about the issue of the Biedermeier-attitude led him to become a revolutionary. His most important plays are “Dantons Tod„ (1835) and „Woyzeck “(1836).
Read also: Masuhr, K.F.:
Whereas acute pain acts as a warning sign, neuropathic pain loses this protective attribute and develops a self–sustaining chronic course. Almost 33 % of the general population report chronic pain and at least 3,3 % neuropathic pain, in Germany ≤ 5 million people. The prevalence is higher in women and increases with age. Neuropathic pain is defined as a direct consequence of a lesion or disease affecting the somatosensory system either at peripheral or central level. Spontaneously occurring dysesthesias, particularly burning pain and repetitive stimulus–triggered neuralgias such as classical trigeminal neuralgia are typical clinical features. Neuropathic pain is frequently found in patients with radiculopathy, nerve compression syndrome and polyneuropathy. The complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is associated with abnormal sudomotor, vasomotor and trophic findings as well as psychosomatic symptoms. Frequent reasons for neuropathic pain of CNS origin are cerebral ischemia and traumatic injuries of the spinal cord with phantom pain. Clinical examination, including accurate sensory examination and Quantitative sensory testing (QST), is the basis of pain diagnosis and therapy. It is important to distinguish neuropathic pain from other chronic pain syndromes: Multimodal therapy differs from treatment of nociceptive pain (for example, in most cases of arthropathy), when the nervous system is intact. Drugs of choice are antidepressants and antiepileptics with analgesic properties.
Link zum DeutschlandfunkKultur;
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/dichtende-aerzte.950.de.html?dram:article_id=133443
„Ärzte, Dichter und Rebellen“, soeben erschienen. Jetzt liegt das erste Exemplar auf dem Tisch, druckfrisch, und die Nachbarskatze springt auf diesen Tisch, um an dem Buch zu schnuppern oder den Titel zu lesen. Dachte ich. Aber sie ist von dem Würfel fasziniert! Der Buchumschlag strahlt Ruhe aus, aber das Kipp-Phänomen des Necker-würfels mit den ständig wechselnden Perspektiven schafft Unruhe, Bewegung. Das ist beabsichtigt.
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