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Diagnosing Churchill - Bipolar or "Prey to Nerves"? (Paperback)
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Diagnosing Churchill - Bipolar or "Prey to Nerves"? (Paperback)
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This pioneering book investigates how biographical evidence has
been variously used, misused, or not used at all, by clinicians
entirely reliant on biographical evidence for the influential
posthumous diagnoses they have produced of Winston Churchill as a
manic-depressive. Attention is paid, also, to the distinct question
of Churchill and "nerves," otherwise known as neurasthenia. This
question has a place alongside the manic-depression issue because,
by ensuring there is a marked contrast between two lines of
biographical inquiry, it facilitates a significant move in the
direction of a more rounded, a more securely founded, understanding
of how Churchill functioned psychologically, and how he did not.
That goal of a more rounded understanding is important, and the
contribution Diagnosing Churchill makes towards its achievement is
worthwhile, because accuracy in the depiction of key elements in
the functioning of a major historical figure, one of the heroes of
Western democratic civilization, is enjoined by a principle
Churchill expressed thus: "the meanest historian owes something to
the truth."
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