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The influence of dynamic psychiatry on <i>Tender Is the Night</i> by F. Scott Fitzgerald Lauren Moffat (24164481) PUREID: 243003552 F. Scott Fitzgerald Tender Is the Night psychiatry Zelda Fitzgerald <p>This study is an attempt to redress the historical misapplication of literary and cultural theory in reading the psychiatric material of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <i>Tender Is the Night</i>. Critics have applied several, sometimes contradictory, theoretical lenses to the text. As a result, the text has been characterised either as ignorant of psychiatry or in league with the so-called autocratic and “unscientific” basis of its practices. Often, it is regarded a revenge project aimed at his wife, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald (herself a psychiatric patient periodically between 1930 and 1948). </p><p><br>Medicine’s rediscovery of the humanistic dimensions of its practice during the past thirty years provides a useful framework that Tender criticism can use to break the cycle of restatement of tired and misapplied theoretical premises from a by-gone era of anti-psychiatry, psychoanalytic theory, and second-wave feminism. Such a text-centric framework allows one to turn both to the history of psychiatry and the personal history of the Fitzgeralds’ interactions with psychodynamic psychiatry by way of the archive. It creates a clearer picture of what the author intended for the text, and how it reflects a time in his life in which the author had exceptionally close contact with the foremost psychiatric clinics and psychiatrists in the world.</p><p></p> 2026-10-01T17:19:03Z Text Thesis 10.17034/32631543.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/The_influence_of_dynamic_psychiatry_on_i_Tender_Is_the_Night_i_by_F_Scott_Fitzgerald/32631543 All Rights Reserved