Commentary explores Dostoevsky's views on trauma and psychological complexity, highlighting implications for psychiatry.
This commentary reflects on what Dostoevsky's work offers contemporary psychiatry, showing how his portrayals of fractured selves, dissociation, shame and the ambivalent force of beauty deepen our understanding of trauma's lived experience and highlight the psychological complexities that clinical language cannot always capture.
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