๐Variations on Piranesi. The Metaphysics of Space.
๐ฐVariazioni su Piranesi. Metafisica dello spazio.
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Half Shadow, Half Hymn
I belong to the nightโ to the corridors where ghosts grow honest, where they shed the polite lie of absence and breathe again through memoryโs ribs. Where ancestors press their mouths to my ear, whispering in bone-language, where the veil hangs in tattersโ not a barrier, but a dare. Love lives here. Even after the burial. Even after the last goodbye forgets its own echo. I have felt the universe inhaleโ a slow, cosmic breath beneath the skin of thought, binary bones [โฆ]https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/half-shadow-half-hymn/
From the very beginnings of our field in the late 18th century, psychiatrists have engaged, often extensively, in โmetaphorical brain talkโ โ rephrasing descriptions of mental processes in unconfirmed brain metaphors (e.g., โdiseased working of the brain convolutionsโ). In the late 19th century, Kraepelin criticized the later developments of such approaches, termed โbrain mythologyโ by the philosopher/psychiatrist Jaspers in 1913. In this essay, I review the history, meaning, and significance of this phenomenon and reach four conclusions. First, this trend has continued to the present day in metaphors such as the โbroken brainโ and the use of simplistic and empirically poorly supported explanations of psychiatric illness, such as depression being โdue to an imbalance of serotonin in the brain.โ Second, our language stems from the tension in our profession that seeks to be a part of medicine yet declares our main focus as treatment of the mental. We feel more comfortable with the reductionist approach of brain metaphors, which, even though at times self-deceptive, reinforce our commitment to and membership in a brain-based medical specialty. Third, metaphorical brain talk can also be seen as the โpromissory noteโ of our profession, a pledge that the day will come when we can indeed explain accurately to ourselves and to our patients the brain basis of the psychiatric disorders from which they suffer. Finally, moving away from metaphorical brain talk would reflect an increasing maturity of both the research and clinical aspects of our profession.
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