16. Incontinent Nostalgia
Jelliffe, S. E. Psychopathology of Forced Movements and Oculogyric Crises of Lethargic Encephalitis. London: 1932. Esp. p. 114ff. discussing Zutt's paper of 1930.
See also the case of "Rose R." in Awakenings. London: 1973; 3rd. ed. 1983.
17. A Passage to India
I am not acquainted with the literature on this subject I have, however, had personal experience of another patient-also with a glioma, with increased intracranial pressure and seizures, and on steroids-who, as she was dying, had similar nostalgic visions and reminiscences, in her case of the Midwest.
18. The Dog Beneath the Skin
Bear, D. "Temporal-lobe epilepsy: a syndrome of sensory-limbic hy-perconnection." Cortex (1979) 15: 357-84.
Brill, A. A. "The sense of smell in neuroses and psychoses." Psychoanalytical Quarterly (1932) 1: 7-42. Brill's lengthy paper covers much more ground than its title would indicate. In particular it contains a detailed consideration of the strength and importance of smell in many animals, in "savages," and in children, the amazing powers and potentials of which seem to have been lost in adult man.
19. Murder
I am not acquainted with any precisely similar accounts. I have, however, in rare cases of frontal-lobe injury, frontal-lobe tumour, frontal-lobe (anterior cerebral) "stroke" and (not least) lobotomy, seen the precipitation of obsessional "reminiscence." Lobotomies, of course, were designed as a "cure" for such "reminiscence"-but, on occasion, caused it to become very much worse. See also Penfield and Perot, op. cit.
20. The Visions of Hildegard
Singer, C. "The visions of Hildegard of Bingen" in From Magic to Science (Dover repr. 1958).
See also my Migraine (1970; 3rd ed. 1985), esp. ch. 3, on Migraine Aura.
For Dostoievski's epileptic transports and visions, see Alajouanine, op. cit.
Introduction to Part Four
Bruner, J. "Narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought," presented at the Annua] Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, August 1984. Published as "Two Modes of Thought," in Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (Boston: 1986), pp. 11-43.
Scholem, G. On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism. New York: 1965.
Yates, F. The Art of Memory. London: 1966.
21. Rebecca
Bruner, J. Ibid.
Peters, L. R. "The role of dreams in the life of a mentally retarded individual." Ethos (1983): 49-65.
22. A Walking Grove
Hill, L. "Idiots savants: a categorisation of abilities.' Mental Retardation. December 1974.
Viscott, D. "A musical idiot savant: a psychodynamic study, and some speculation on the creative process." Psychiatry (1970) 33 (4): 494-515.
23. The Twins
Hamblin, D. J. "They are 'idiots savants'-wizards of the calendar." Life 60 (18 March 1966): 106-8.
Horwitz, W. A. et al. "Identical twin 'idiots savants'-calendar calculators." American /. Psychiat. (1965) 121: 1075-79.
Luria, A. R. and Yudovich, F. la. Speech and the Development of Mental Processes in the Child. Eng. tr. London: 1959.
Myers, F. W. H. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death. London: 1903. See ch. 3, "Genius," esp. pp. 70-87. Myers was in part a genius, and this book is in part a masterpiece. This is evident in the first volume, which is often comparable to William James' Principles of Psychology-he was a close personal friend of James. The second volume, "Phantasms of the Dead," etc., is to my mind an embarrassment.
Nagel, E. and Newmann, J. R. Godel's Proof. New York: 1958.
Park, C. C. and D. See below under Chapter 24.
Selfe, L. Nadia. See below under Chapter 24.
Silverberg, R. Thorns. New York: 1967.
Smith, S. B. The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present. New York: 1983.
Stewart, I. Concepts of Modern Mathematics. Harmondsworth: 1975.
Wollheim, R. The Thread of Life. Cambridge, Mass.: 1984. See especially ch. 3 on "iconicity" and "centricity." I had just read this book when I came to write of Martin A., the Twins, and Jose; hence, reference to it appears in all three of these chapters (22, 23, 24).
24. The Autist Artist
Buck, L. A. et al. "Artistic talent in autistic adolescents and young adults." Empirical Studies of the Arts (1985) 3 (1): 81-104.
–----. "Art as a means of interpersonal communication in autistic
young adults." /PC (1985) 3: 73-84.
(Both these papers are published under the aegis of the Talented Handicapped Artist's Workshop, founded in New York in 1981.)
Morishima, A. "Another Van Gogh of Japan: The superior art work of a retarded boy." Exceptional Children (1974) 41: 92-6.
Motsugi, K. "Shyochan's drawing of insects." Japanese Journal of Mentally Retarded Children (1968) 119: 44-7.
Park, C. C. The Siege: The First Eight Years of an Autistic Child. New York: 1967 (paperback: Boston and Harmondsworth: 1972).
Park, D. and Youderian, P. "Light and number: ordering principles in the world of an autistic child." Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia (1974) 4 (4): 313-23.
Rapin, I. Children with Brain Dysfunction: Neurology, Cognition, Language and Behaviour New York: 1982.
Selfe, L. Nadia: A Case of Extraordinary Drawing Ability in an Autistic Child. London: 1977. This richly illustrated study of a uniquely gifted child attracted much attention when published and some very important critiques and reviews. The reader is referred to Nigel Dennis, New York Review of Books, 4 May, 1978, and C. C. Park, Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia (1978) 8: 457-72. The latter contains a rich discussion and bibliography of the fascinating Japanese work with autistic artists with which my final Postscript concludes.
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