pathographical

English

Adjective

pathographical (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of pathographic
   • 1999, Anne Hunsaker Hawkins, Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography, page xvi:

     Since pathographical writing tends to be so ephemeral, students of pathography will find extremely helpful the special collection developed by Jan Willms at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana.

   • 2013, Thomas Fuchs, Thiemo Breyer, Christoph Mundt, Karl Jaspers’ Philosophy and Psychopathology, page 5:

     On the one hand he rejects—in an allusion to Lange—the pathographical application of “crude categories” to such magnificent poetry: “It is quite dangerous to be quick about declaring something 'incomprehensible', therefore 'crazy', to call something void, trivial, farfetched, confused".

   • 2015, Ben Dorfman, Ideas in History vol.8:2, page 88:

     Matthias Bormuth (2013) suggests that Jaspers' analysis of Strindberg, Van Gogh, Swedenborg, and Hölderlin is related to a pathographical view—that is, a type of biography that focuses on faults, unlucky circumstances, failures, and other negative aspects of the person's life.