[But can Tolstoy, Melville or Austen actually cure depression? Can they rid you of anxiety? Un-stress your mind?] I'm skeptical of the ability -- the literal ability -- of literature to heal,.. But there's another part of me that says, 'Who knows?' So much of medicine is reliant upon rhetoric.
Brian Bremen
It goes back to Aristotle's idea that tragedy has a cathartic effect on the audience,.. The experience purges you and leaves you a healthier person.
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