title: The collapsing perimeter. A commentary on life, death, and death-in-life.
abstract: The individual is encased in an existential, phenomenological space that has the capacity to contract or expand, to isolate itself, or to join with others. An analysis is provided of how this individual space capsule functions under varying circumstances, such as depression, schizophrenia, sociopathy, divorce, child-battery, aging, death, overpopulation, cultural disruption, and execution.
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002649:Child Abuse; D003469:Culture; D003643:Death; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D004644:Emotions / Q000187:drug effects; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000150:complications; D011156:Population Density; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000494:pharmacology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications; D012918:Social Alienation; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders; D012922:Social Change; D012924:Social Conditions; D012934:Social Isolation; D013405:Suicide; D014754:Violence
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs