By Lida Prypchan I Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes an honor, but for some it is a favor. (Seneca) Here are two examples of euthanasia: 1. A man, bedridden lies in extreme agony. His death is imminent! Is it a human right to opt for a quick, painless death instead of …
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WHICH CAME FIRST: ALCOHOL OR CRIME?
By Lida Prypchan In July 1982, Drs. Román Prypchan and Pedro Téllez Carrasco presented for their professional advancement a detailed study on 150 psychiatric skills entitled: “Problems in the Practice of Psychiatry in Venezuela. Analysis of some Sample Cases”. In this work the authors found that alcoholic psychoses constituted 9% of the total …
DRUNK WITH LOVE
By Lida Prypchan When a normal individual (normal being the term for average, not a value judgment) gets drunk, he displays a statistically average form of behavior, called normal or simple inebriety. This is characterized by a change in mood (which becomes expansive or, less frequently, depressed), behavior, attention, and in motor function. …
THE MAN-EATING MACHINE
By Lida Prypchan As though guided by a time machine, I was ready in thirteen minutes to visit Juan, who was sick. “The noise of those machines is driving me crazy!” Juan yelled to me as I was going in. They gave me a seat on the terrace, across from which there was …
IMPRISONED IN THE CITY
By Lida Prypchan (The City is Valencia) One of my fears has been to go to jail – to be imprisoned, even though I am innocent. But as well as being one of my fears, it has been the only answer to my dreams. I know that as a prisoner I could …
MALE AND FEMALE ALCOHOLISM
By Lida Prypchan When a woman gets drunk, she tends to hide herself away, to be ashamed of herself. A man on the other hand, for social reasons, boasts about it. The alcoholic female drinks alone, the male tends more to meet up with friends and only to become captive to the addiction …
IS OUR PROGRESS AN ILLUSION?
By Lida Prypchan The inventor of the shuttle contributed more to humanity than whoever conceived of innate ideas. (Voltaire) Progress is the unfolding of civilization. It is the progression of concepts that foster development, concepts that combat everything that is the very opposite of progress: barbarism, lack of culture, decadence. Progress is …
MADNESS BEGOTTEN OF LOVE AND JEALOUSY
By Lida Prypchan If jealousy be a sign of love, it is like a fever displayed by a sick man – a sign of life, but a sick and ill-disposed life. (Cervantes) Jealousy, love and madness should be synonyms. After all, they share similar characteristics. Jealousy is love gone …
RUNNING AWAY
By Lida Prypchan Give man a life of leisure and you will recognize him for what he really is. We live only half a life. At first, we are oblivious of this fact and spend a good number of years distracted by uncertainty and indecision. Some people are plaqued by indecision for …
LEONELA: AN OBSESSION
By Lida Prypchan “Each to his own,” said Elio, who had a habit of creating a commotion in the city square at midnight… until one day they put him in jail because of it. Elvira, Elio’s wife, had a habit of talking to herself in the mirror when she got up in the …