In Essence - Softcover

Karasu, Sylvia R

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798218658250

Publisher: Sylvia R. Karasu, MD, 2025

Synopsis

In Essence creates a veritable 'narrative scaffolding' of the arts among the sciences. A compilation of scholarly blogs and essays by a clinical professor of psychiatry, this volume weaves together references from some of our most prestigious scholars and illustrates each piece with sumptuous color images from the world's greatest artists. Drawing insights from philosophy, culture, history, literature, film, and the arts, the author, with a medical and psychological perspective, presents an exquisite tapestry of subjects, including loneliness, resilience, pain, cancer, pregnancy, synesthesia, hypochondriasis, counterfactual thinking, compassion failure, facial deformities, the madness of hunger, face blindness, and a mathematical approach to the study of infinity.

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About the Author

Sylvia R. Karasu, MD is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, an Attending Psychiatrist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and a long-standing member of the Institutional Review Board of The Rockefeller University. Dr. Karasu is the author Of Epidemic Proportions: The Art and Science of Obesity (2019), a compilation of 101 scholarly blogs she wrote for psychologytoday.com. She is also the senior author of The Gravity of Weight: A Clinical Guide to Weight Loss and Maintenance (2010) and The Art of Marriage Maintenance (2005.) Dr. Karasu is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and has her MD degree from Einstein College of Medicine. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and an elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. She has been a contributor to the online medical humanities journal Hektoen International, and she has been writing monthly blogs for psychologytoday.com for over 14 years. She has a private psychiatric practice in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sylvia R. Karasu, MD
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798218658250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412