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Introduction
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Edward Shorter and Max Fink
Published: 01 May 2018
... it properly are matters of importance. catalepsy homesickness acute delirium history of psychiatric diagnosis stupor muteness negativism motor symptoms psychosis catatonia Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM 5 Heckers Stephan mutisms staring Wilson Jo Ellen Bakirköy...
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Living in America
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Etsuko Takushi Crissey
Published: 30 June 2017
... to make other contacts. Isolation also results from the individualistic nature of American society. Interviewees accustomed to close relationships with relatives and neighbours typical in Okinawa were surprised that in the U.S. “neighbours don’t even speak to each other.” Many suffered from homesickness...
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Be-Longing
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Janne Flora
Published: 25 March 2019
...Is it possible to long too much? Or to be too homesick? – or too little? This chapter explores the everyday expression of homesickness and longing and the work people in Illorsuit (pseudonym) put into balance these between inadequacy and excessiveness. Some people may express their longing...
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Philosophy’s Nostalgia
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Jeff Malpas
Published: 27 January 2012
..., it is explored through the connotations suggested by its Greek etymology as precisely a longing for the return home—a return that cannot be achieved—a form of homesickness, and so as unsettling rather than comfortable, as bringing with it a sense of the essential questionability of our own being in the world...
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Crying and health
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Ad Vingerhoets
Published: 28 February 2013
... mortality in patients with coronary heart disease. Lancet , 347 , 417–21.Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist, ed. Kathleen Tillotson. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2008). 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)90007-0 Draaisma D. ( 2008 ). De Heimweefabriek [The Homesickness Factory ...
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Published: 08 July 2020
... proxenoi federalism federal states Phokis Syracuse demography Eretria Kephissos Valley Morris Ian Oropos Tanagra Alexander the Great Diogenes of Sinope Ionia spatial turn local identity local knowledge Mediterraneanization neigbhorhood countryside brain GPS homesickness neurosciences...
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Published: 30 April 2007
... capture the scent of an era and a way of seeing the world. These stories reveal the immigrant's philosophy of hard work, a melancholic optimism, homesickness, and will. The discovery of autobiographies in the homes of unschooled workers tells us that immigrants were so concerned with their self-image...
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Published: 01 October 2008
...This chapter presents “The Lament of My Mother” (1941), a poem written by Yosl Mlotek either before he arrived in Shanghai or shortly after he reached China in the summer or early fall of 1941. The loneliness of the young man is palpable in the poem. But it is more than homesickness, longing...
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Introduction
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Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan
Published: 15 August 1991
..., this book attempts to explore Conrad’s ‘homesickness’ and its various aspects. ‘Ascending Effort The’ Copernican outlook Krutch Joséph Wood modernity Ptolemaic outlook Graham Cunninghame letters to Nietzsche Friedrich Warren Robert Penn Chance Heart of Darkness Lord Jim Nostromo Rescue...
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Published: 22 January 1998
... Brigade. Griffin rejoined his command in November 1861 and by December 1 the infantry and artillery reunited and went into winter quarters near the mouth of the Occoquan River. He also expressed his homesickness and related the improvement in his health. Aquia Creek Butler Matthew Calbraith Charleston...
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Published: 18 June 2020
.... Of his more than seventy published songs, at least eleven speak primarily of departure, travelling, awareness of distance from loved ones, and homesickness. This chapter examines Mendelssohn’s experiences of journeying to other countries as expressed in his lively letters and the songs born of his...
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Published: 24 July 2003
.... Forster on the works of George Crabbe. There were quite a few quotations from the poem ‘Peter Grimes’ by Crabbe and I don’t know whether it was homesickness or a sudden opening of my eyes to a new poetic style, or both, but I was amazed and thrilled by this poetry. I went into Los Angeles a few days later...
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Shadow of a Doubt
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Diane Negra
Published online: 20 January 2022
Published in print: 01 June 2021
...This book redresses the deficit of sustained critical attention paid to Shadow of a Doubt even in the large corpus of Hitchcock scholarship. Analyzing the film’s narrative system, issues of genre, authorship and social history, knowledge and epistemology, homesickness and “family...
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Published: 10 January 2018
... it feel like to be homesick in the early 1800s? This chapter tightens the lens and delves into the sensorial and affective world of those Napoleonic soldiers who suffered from nostalgia on the battlefield. Drawing from a rich collection of letters and diaries, it reconstructs their own narratives...
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Nostalgia
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Jonathan Lamb
Published: 20 November 2018
...This chapter explores the range of reflective possibilities available to scorbutic memoirists as they try to reach a public dwelling on the other side of the situation. It shows how, in the exigencies of scorbutic experience, being alone and far from home do not in themselves excite homesickness...
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Solastalgia: The Homesickness You Have at Home
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Glenn A. Albrecht
Published: 15 May 2019
... (homesickness) and other roots is explained. The original research base of solastalgia is described as are the many applications of the concept world-wide over the last fifteen years since its creation. The applications of solastalgia are examined in academic, popular and cultural contexts, including the domain...
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Voyaging: ‘My time hangs rather heavy on my hands’: Passing the Time, Marking the Passage
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John McAleer
Published: 18 May 2023
... the Atlantic Ocean in the Age of Sail. It focuses on their physiological and psychological experiences and responses: their feelings before departure, as well as the seasickness, physical discomfort, homesickness, and tedium they experienced on the voyage itself. It examines the strategies employed...
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Published: 17 January 2023
...This chapter analyzes the period’s prolific scientific writings about the disease named “Nostalgia” (nostos [homecoming] + algia [pain]) in 1688 as the nosological term for the homesickness experienced by those compelled to move. Drawing...
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Rebel and Tribe: Life Politics in a Mobile Community
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Jennie Germann Molz
Published: 23 February 2021
...This chapter explores how worldschoolers cope with loneliness, homesickness, and unrootedness on the road by creating new kinds of community. As the children, especially teenagers, crave connection with their peers, parents reconcile their competing desires for individual freedom and a sense...
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Foreign Students: Unique Problems and Stresses
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Dale F Bloom and others
Published: 25 February 1999
... with the structure of American institutions, loneliness, and homesickness. The biggest hurdle I faced was the culture difference and the fact that I got very lonely at times. I kept comparing the U.S. to the U.K., and in the end decided that the U.S. was just “different.” The absence of familiar crutches made...