Abstract
Medicine and the Humanities: Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Black Monk’
Highlights
Andrei Vasslyich Kovrin, Master of Arts in Psychology, decides to go to a country house on account of his nerves being „weary from over – work‟
Kovrin adopts a feverish routine of continuous, vigorous work
Soon Kovrin becomes obsessed by the idea of the black monk and begins having hallucinations in which he converses with the apparition
Summary
Andrei Vasslyich Kovrin, Master of Arts in Psychology, decides to go to a country house on account of his nerves being „weary from over – work‟. Kovrin adopts a feverish routine of continuous, vigorous work. Amir M.F.1 House Officer, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences King Edward Medical University / Mayo Hospital, Lahore – Pakistan Hashmi A.M.2 Associate Professor of Psychiatry, King Edward Medical University/Mayo Hospital, Lahore – Pakistan This suggests the legend of “the black monk.”
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