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Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 12:129-133, April 2004
© 2004 American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry

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William Carlos Williams

Elizabeth A. Evans, B.A., and Dilip V. Jeste, M.D.

Received December 12, 2002; revised December 18, 2003; accepted December 22, 2003. From the University of California, San Diego, VA San Diego Healthcare System. Address correspondence to Dilip V. Jeste, M.D., Estelle and Edgar Levi Chair in Aging, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Chief, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, VA San Diego Healthcare System (116A-1), 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161. e-mail: djeste{at}ucsd.edu
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ABSTRACT

Williams Carlos Williams was a physician and a poet. He suffered from multiple episodes of major depression, and had post-stroke depressions in later life; yet, he remained a productive writer until a few years prior before his death, at age 80. The structure, style, and content of Williams' writings evolved continually, and he received a Pulitzer Prize posthumously for poetry written during his later life. The authors discuss factors that seem to be associated with his successful coping with mental illness. Williams' life helps challenge the negative stereotypes associated with serious mental illness and aging.

Key Words: Historical Case Conferences • Depression • Medical Comorbidity • Normal Aging




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