Dromomania

[lovingkindness]

'dromomania’ ....a compulsive drift in the direction of escape…. (Bing translator)

…..an uncontrollable psychological urge to wander. People with this condition spontaneously depart from their routine, travel long distances and take up different identities and occupations. Months may pass before they return to their former identities. The term comes from the Greek: dromos (running) and mania (insanity). -Wikipedia

Norwegian peregrino Einar Lunga (R.I.P) has put together an interesting article on Dromomania (05/02/2012). The paintings are beautiful. Here’s a link to his website ‘Imaginal journeys’.

http://einarlunga.wordpress.com/201...om-en-ukjent-og-alvorlig-psykiatrisk-lidelse/

Happy reading!
-Lovingkindness

 

[lovingkindness]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1620403110/?tag=casaivar02-20

The Man Who Walked Away: A Novel by Maud Casey

"In a trance-like state, Albert walks—from Bordeaux to Poitiers, from Chaumont to Macon, and farther afield to Turkey, Austria, Russia—all over Europe. When he walks, he is called a vagrant, a mad man. He is chased out of towns and villages, ridiculed and imprisoned. When the reverie of his walking ends, he’s left wondering where he is, with no memory of how he got there. His past exists only in fleeting images.

Loosely based on the case history of Albert Dadas, a psychiatric patient in the hospital of St. André in Bordeaux in the nineteenth century, The Man Who Walked Away imagines Albert’s wanderings and the anguish that caused him to seek treatment with a doctor who would create a diagnosis for him, a narrative for his pain.

In a time when mental health diagnosis is still as much art as science, Maud Casey takes us back to its tentative beginnings and offers us an intimate relationship between one doctor and his patient as, together, they attempt to reassemble a lost life. Through Albert she gives us a portrait of a man untethered from place and time who, in spite of himself, kept setting out, again and again, in search of wonder and astonishment."

 

[lovingkindness]

Dromomania (2015): Happy Feet

...Enjoy!

 

[SabsP]

@lovingkindness : Your posts always make me smile...and they give me something to explore and think about .

 

[HedaP]

Well that explains my previously inexplicable urge to walk every known camino plus have one or more avatars and I’ve been thinking my forum name is particularly boring!