Edgar Allan Poe as Amateur Psychologist A Companion Anthology

Acknowledgments – Brett Zimmerman: Introduction – Phrenology – Edward Hungerford: Poe and Phrenology – Madeleine B. Stern: Poe: “The Mental Temperament” for Phrenologists – Donald B. Stauffer: Poe as Phrenologist: The Example of Monsieur Dupin Mainstream Psychology – William Whipple: Poe’s Two- Edged Satiric Tale [“The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”] – Allan Gardner Lloyd- Smith (Allan Smith): The Psychological Context of Three Tales by Poe – Elizabeth C. Phillips: Mere Household Events: The Metaphysics of Mania – Paige Matthey Bynum: “Observe How Healthily— How Calmly I Can Tell You the Whole Story”: Moral Insanity and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell- Tale Heart” – John Cleman: Irresistible Impulses: Edgar Allan Poe and the Insanity Defense – Vicki Hester and Emily Segir: “The Black Cat” and Current Forensic Psychology – Lynne Piper Shackelford: “Infected by Superstitions”: Folie à Deux in “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Susan Scheckel: Home- Sickness, Nostalgia, and Therapeutic Narrative in Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Brett Zimmerman: Charley Goodfellow as Psychopathic Personality in “Thou Art the Man” – The Psychosomatic – I. M. Walker: The “Legitimate Sources” of Terror in “The Fall of the House of Usher” – David W. Butler: Usher’s Hypochondriasis: Mental Alienation and Romantic Idealism in Poe’s Gothic Tales – George R. Uba: Malady and Motive: Medical History and “The Fall of the House of Usher” – Index.