The "imprisoned illness:" motor tic disorder in Rainer Maria Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
Rainer Maria Rilke's novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge contains a reference of interest for the catalog of literary portrayals of tiqueurs. In this article, we report his description of a Parisian character displaying multiple motor tic symptoms, along with a brief commentary.
Cavanna
Andrea Eugenio
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Department of Neuropsychiatry, University of Birmingham and BSMHFT, Birmingham, United Kingdom. a.cavanna@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Pattumelli
Maria Grazia
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Quarto
Tiziana
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Ali
Fizzah
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Rickards
Hugh
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D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D013981:Tic Disorders