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Journal Article
Restoring Equilibrium (type II): Physiological Lessons for the 21st Century from Dr Guislain's (1797-1860) Art of Healing
2022
Overview
There is, in this quite unsettled, 'atomising' or 'entropie' 21st century of ours (dixit Michel Houellebecq), an emerging and ongoing interest, in both fiction and non-fiction, in 19th and early 20th century psychiatry which, it too, had to find ways to deal with the mental or psychological fallout of massive social and cultural change. In this contribution an attempt will be made to explore the work of one pioneering alienist, i.e. Dr Joseph Guislain (1797-1860), whose work may, arguably, still hold relevance today. A visionary physician-cum-philosopher, as well as an amateur architect, Guislain himself drew up the plans for a Hospice (or asylum), a work of art in its own right, and a piece of technology for the purpose of healing or making whole again. Indeed, Guislain's biological and physiological insights, rooted in vitalist Naturphilosophie, held clues, and still do today, as to the art of healing, a notion that is not irrelevant in attempts to de-atomise communal life and culture.
