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In the first section of Joseph Conrad and Psychological Medicine, Martin Bock explores some of Conrad’s particular forms of illness and situates them within their contemporary context. His research into neurasthenia and into the medical staff and culture of the German Hospital in London suggests why this might have been a congenial hospital for the neurasthenic Conrad, while his detailed account of the “medical treatment” at Champel-les-Bains in Geneva places Conrad back into the late-nineteenthcentury European culture of balneotherapy and hydrotherapy that he shared with his friend and collaborator, Ford Madox Ford, and that provides the background for Ford’s best-known novel, The Good Soldier. Rightly resisting the siren-calls of psychoanalysis, Bock also avoids the temptation to provide the “true” medical meaning of Conrad’s symptoms.

Rather he takes pains to map contemporary diagnosis onto contemporary treatment and, thereby, to reconstruct contemporary understandings of particular forms of illness. By this means, Bock attempts to approach ways in which Conrad might have understood his own physical and mental being. Thus Bock’s attentive reading of Conrad’s symptoms and of contemporary medical and psychological discourses helps us to understand (among other things) why Conrad insisted that there should be “no family.”

In the second section, “Reading Medically,” Bock explores various ways in which psychological medicine permeates Conrad’s fiction.

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