title: [The discourse on mental disorders in the Hispanic short novel: Amado Nervo's case].
abstract: The evolution of Amado Nervo's novellas shows a constant communication with the paradigmatic shifts in the field of psychopathology. His metafictional constructs foreground a playful treatment of some of medicine's key ideas. In some cases, the narrow limits of positivistic psychopathology are overcome in order to anticipate notions that obtain scientific status with modern psychology.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México D.F.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sperling
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship / Q000266:history; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008091:Literature / Q000266:history; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000266:history; D008800:Mexico / Q000208:ethnology; D011584:Psychology / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D011599:Psychopathology / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D012586:Science / Q000193:education / Q000266:history