Stevan M. Weine M.D.
Psychiatrist, researcher, and author
Dr. Stevan M. Weine is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, where he is also Director of Global Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health.
University of Illinois Chicago
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Stevan is the author of three books:
Best Minds: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry from Madness (Fordham University Press, 2023)
Testimony and Catastrophe: Narrating the Traumas of Political Violence (Northwestern University Press, 2006)
When History Is a Nightmare: Lives and Memories of Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia-Herzegovina (Rutgers University Press, 1999).
“If art has one eye and science another, then looking through both eyes offers much more. I look at madness through both artistic and scientific lenses.”
– Stevan M. Weine
“Allen volunteers that if I want to learn more about those early years, I can look through his personal archives at Columbia. He asks, ‘Have you seen my psychiatric records?’ and within a week he gives me his written consent to review his medical records from PI. Allen has never seen those records. Nor have any of the literary critics or biographers who have written about his visions, madness, and psychiatric treatment.”
