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The reason/emotion dualism in Western political thought and psychiatric practice by Serafimov, Alex

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A silent scream: trauma and madness in the early works of António Lobo Antunes by Rato Rodrigues, Ricardo

“…Despite his close attention to the troublesome tradition of Portuguese psychiatry (i.e. the invention of lobotomy by Dr. Egas Moniz, who was awarded the Nobel prize in Medicine for such discovery) and the country's recent belligerent and oppressive history (the dictatorial regime and the Colonial War), Lobo Antunes' novels have universal qualities, in the Joycean tradition of the 'universality of the local', which gives his work validity and urgency.…”
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