Personal suffering and social criticism in T. S. Eliots The Waste Land and A. Ginsbergs Howl: Implications for social psychiatry

Conclusion:
In a time of perceived societal and environmental crises, both poems help us understand people’s fears and how to counteract them. Besides biological approaches, the narrative approach to the suffering human being has not lost its significance.

Source: International Journal of Social Psychiatry - October 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Wigand, M. E., Wiegand, H. F., Rüsch, N., Becker, T. Tags: Original Articles Source Type: research