Stewart Justman
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart Justman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart |
| FAMILY NAME | Justman |
| SIGNATURE | JUSTMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0590-6595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Glimpse of Columbia Past
A Columbia University alumnus reminisces about his graduate training at this vaunted institution and laments that today the professoriate has abandoned the nonprescriptive instruction he received—“as if it were some liberal piety of a discredited past.” Instead, in the politicized classroom “every conclusion is given in advance, and practices ... are sacralized by the imaginary imperatives of social justice.”
From blocked flows to suppressed emotions
Internal blockages and build-ups cause disease: traditionally, this principle seemed intuitive both to professionals and the laity, explained conditions as diverse as melancholy and scurvy (among many others), and justified the use of evacuative treatments to get rid of noxious matter. With the collapse of humoral medicine and the establishment of the concept of specific causation, one might have expected time-honoured tropes of obstruction to di…
The Medicalization of Misspelling
Some years ago when I was talking with a university president, the conversation turned to students who do poorly in foreign language courses. “We’re just going to have to declare it a learning disorder,” he said, and not being bashful about the use of power, he meant his words. He seemed to think declaring a disorder was as straightforward as designating a state flower. In contrast to my interlocutor, the provost, later president, of Boston Unive…
To feel what others feel
In the late 18th century two medical fashions--Mesmerism in France and the Perkins 'tractor' in the USA and England--appealed to the principle that a single universal force acts on all of us and is responsible for health and illness. This principle served both fashions well, as it made it all the easier for those who came within their force fields to experience the sort of sensations that other subscribers to the fashion also seemed to feel. The …
Bibliotherapy
From medicine to psychotherapy
If placebos have been squeezed out of medicine to the point where their official place in in clinical trials designed to identify their own confounding effect, the placebo effect nevertheless thrives in psychotherapy. Not only does psychotherapy dispose of placebo effects that are less available to medicine as it becomes increasingly technological and preoccupied with body parts, but factors of the sort inhibiting the use of placebos in medicine …
The Advertisement of Guilt
Research Article| July 01 2010 THE ADVERTISEMENT OF GUILT Stewart Justman Stewart Justman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2010) 93 (1-2): 163–173. https://doi.org/10.2307/41200923 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stewart Justman; THE ADVERTISEMENT OF GUILT. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 July 2010; 93 (1-2): 163–173. doi: https:/…
Literature and Human Equality
When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are leveled with the rest of the world - now that's a different story. In this ambitious work, Stewart Justman ranges across Western literature from the Iliad and the Odyssey through Cervantes and Shakespeare to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky …
Regarding Others
Regarding Others Stewart Justman (bio) Carefully crafted, lucid, humane, Tzvetan Todorov’s paper argues that as a condition of our being we seek the recognition of others. Like the infant who craves the gaze of the mother, we stand in need of affirmation. Even “masters” do. To be is to lack. In taking grown men back to infancy (the only state of nature we know of) and ascribing to them something like the dependence on the regard of others Roussea…
Hannah Arendt and the Idea of Disclosure
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Hannah Arendt and the Idea of Disclosure
Regarding Others
Regarding Others Stewart Justman (bio) Carefully crafted, lucid, humane, Tzvetan Todorov’s paper argues that as a condition of our being we seek the recognition of others. Like the infant who craves the gaze of the mother, we stand in need of affirmation. Even “masters” do. To be is to lack. In taking grown men back to infancy (the only state of nature we know of) and ascribing to them something like the dependence on the regard of others Roussea…
Literature and Human Equality
When Achilles dons his armor, gods and readers alike know the outcome, as does the hero himself. But when the commoner becomes the hero, when, as Dr. Johnson remarked in 1750, the heroes of modern fiction are leveled with the rest of the world - now that's a different story. In this ambitious work, Stewart Justman ranges across Western literature from the Iliad and the Odyssey through Cervantes and Shakespeare to Dickens, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky …
Bibliotherapy
From medicine to psychotherapy
If placebos have been squeezed out of medicine to the point where their official place in in clinical trials designed to identify their own confounding effect, the placebo effect nevertheless thrives in psychotherapy. Not only does psychotherapy dispose of placebo effects that are less available to medicine as it becomes increasingly technological and preoccupied with body parts, but factors of the sort inhibiting the use of placebos in medicine …
The Advertisement of Guilt
Research Article| July 01 2010 THE ADVERTISEMENT OF GUILT Stewart Justman Stewart Justman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal (2010) 93 (1-2): 163–173. https://doi.org/10.2307/41200923 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stewart Justman; THE ADVERTISEMENT OF GUILT. Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 July 2010; 93 (1-2): 163–173. doi: https:/…
To feel what others feel
In the late 18th century two medical fashions--Mesmerism in France and the Perkins 'tractor' in the USA and England--appealed to the principle that a single universal force acts on all of us and is responsible for health and illness. This principle served both fashions well, as it made it all the easier for those who came within their force fields to experience the sort of sensations that other subscribers to the fashion also seemed to feel. The …
The Medicalization of Misspelling
Some years ago when I was talking with a university president, the conversation turned to students who do poorly in foreign language courses. “We’re just going to have to declare it a learning disorder,” he said, and not being bashful about the use of power, he meant his words. He seemed to think declaring a disorder was as straightforward as designating a state flower. In contrast to my interlocutor, the provost, later president, of Boston Unive…
From blocked flows to suppressed emotions
Internal blockages and build-ups cause disease: traditionally, this principle seemed intuitive both to professionals and the laity, explained conditions as diverse as melancholy and scurvy (among many others), and justified the use of evacuative treatments to get rid of noxious matter. With the collapse of humoral medicine and the establishment of the concept of specific causation, one might have expected time-honoured tropes of obstruction to di…
A Glimpse of Columbia Past
A Columbia University alumnus reminisces about his graduate training at this vaunted institution and laments that today the professoriate has abandoned the nonprescriptive instruction he received—“as if it were some liberal piety of a discredited past.” Instead, in the politicized classroom “every conclusion is given in advance, and practices ... are sacralized by the imaginary imperatives of social justice.”
Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 works) · Higher education (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Academic Freedom and Politics (2 works)