Ansiedad Moderna, Mujer Moderna

An attending psychiatrist at the Wyoming Behavioral Institute in Casper, Wyoming, Dr. Prypchan specializes in Adult, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has more than two decades of experience in psychiatry, beginning as early as adolescence when she conducted psychiatric patient interviews while assisting her father in his psychiatric practice in her homeland, Venezuela.After obtaining her M.D. degree at the University of Carabobo in Venezuela, Dr. Prypchan moved to Pittsburgh, Penn., where she lived for six years. During this time she worked as a research associate with Matcheri Keshavan, M.D. in the field of schizophrenia, then with Duncan Clark, M.D. in the field of anxiety disorders in children and adolescents with substance abuse at Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center. She then joined Juan Mezzich, M.D. and worked on several World Psychiatric Association projects on Diagnostic Classification Systems in Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.Dr. Prypchan trained in general psychiatry for three years at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and for four years at Elmhurst Hospital Center/Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where she was also a fellow for two years in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.Dr. Prypchan has written 150 published articles and is a three-time recipient of the National Award of Scientific Journalism in Valencia, Venezuela....on Philosophy"My Buddhist practice and my Master and Disciple relationship with my father and other mentors have been paramount to my development as a human being and therefore as a psychiatrist... I wouldn't have been able to overcome the challenges I met under the pressure of passing rigorous exams as a student who was older than most, if not all, of her U.S. medical school classmates if I hadn't begun to practice Buddhism.""When I began my practice in 1988, I felt as though I was a leaf spun around by the wind, but 20 years later, I feel more like a tree, robust and rooted in the ground of reality.""Life is a search, seeking spirit, seeking conclusion. What we want is to find freedom and peace and to manifest our potential... How can this be accomplished? Through unification, not compartmentalization."...on the Arts"I very much enjoy the literary and visual arts. When I'm not practicing psychiatry, I spend a good deal of my time reading books (especially biographies) and seeing movies that explore a combination of psychiatric and philosophical themes."

¿Por qué la ansiedad moderna? La ansiedad siempre ha estado con nosotros, pero ¿qué es la ansiedad en una sociedad tecnológica? Si nuestra tolerancia al estímulo sensorial es finita, ¿cuándo llegamos al punto de ruptura en nuestro mundo frenético con sus medios de comunicación de 24 horas, su ataque visual, su aspiración material incesante? Si la felicidad se encuentra con moderación, ¿qué será de nosotros en un mundo de extremos? Éstos son los hilos que recorren ésta colección, con una mirada ocasional a tiempos más inocentes. Emily Brontë forjó, posiblemente, la novela más apasionada de la literatura a partir de una vida cotidiana ascética inconcebible para la mayoría de nosotros, acostumbrados como estamos a la distracción. Tanto consciente como inconscientemente estamos siendo constantemente estimulados, seducidos y sedados por placeres fáciles de ganar, ¿acaso estamos perdiendo la capacidad de alcanzar esa felicidad profunda, la que esta debajo de la superficie, aquella de la que hablan los grandes sabios de la historia?¿Por qué la mujer moderna? Éstas piezas se centran en los alcances externos o extremos de la experiencia romántica: amor imposible, amor trágico, decepciones que nos marcan de por vida. ¿Son éstos temas "femeninos" o simplemente intentan describir la experiencia humana? Indudablemente vemos más material escrito por mujeres y sobre mujeres, pero después de milenios de silencio, donde la experiencia de la mujer fue casi completamente indocumentada y sin contexto, ¿sabemos siquiera qué es una mujer? Eclesiastés dice que no hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, pero quizás es posible dar una nueva perspectiva y es esto precisamente lo que más necesita este mundo psicológicamente abrumado.