Top credits Director Dario Argento. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer The Stendhal Syndrome. Photos Top cast Edit. Asia Argento Det. Anna Manni as Det. Anna Manni. Luigi Diberti Insp. Manetti as Insp. Paolo Bonacelli Dr. Cavanna as Dr. Julien Lambroschini Marie as Marie.
John Quentin Anna's father as Anna's father. Franco Diogene Victim's husband as Victim's husband. Lucia Stara Shop assistant as Shop assistant. Lorenzo Crespi Giulio as Giulio. Vera Gemma Policewoman as Policewoman. John Pedeferri Hydraulic engineer as Hydraulic engineer. Veronica Lazar Marie's mother as Marie's mother.
Mario Diano Coroner as Coroner. Eleonora Vizzini Anna, as a child as Anna, as a child. Maximilian Nisi Luigi as Luigi. Leonardo Ferrantini Alessandro as Alessandro. Dario Argento. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Anna Manni is a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. His only past psychiatric history is a 4-year period of low mood in his thirties at a time of great personal and financial stress that culminated in a 3-month admission.
This followed a serious suicide attempt when he jumped in front of a train and fortunately escaped with only minor musculoskeletal injuries. There is no relevant past medical history. He was on no medications at the times of the above two episodes and had never misused alcohol or illicit drugs. There is no other relevant family history.
He received no treatment until presenting to our service 8 years after the initial visit to Florence. He was clearly distressed by these symptoms, and his wife and friends were concerned about him. However, the relatively swift resolution of his symptoms had reassured them that acute psychiatric help was not imperative. Since presenting to psychiatry services, his symptoms have involved only transient problems with sleeping, which were often associated with mild increases in paranoid ideation that have been ameliorated by low doses of olanzapine.
He made a full recovery, required no extensive follow-up and returned to full-time work. Being psychologically overcome by the artistic beauty and cultural significance of Florence was first personally reported in by the French author Stendhal. Two-thirds experienced paranoid psychoses, while the remainder developed predominantly affective or anxiety states. Many had extensively prepared for the visit and had previous contact with psychiatric services. Western European tourists seemed to be more vulnerable than Americans, while no Italians were affected.
Although Florence is of great cultural and artistic significance, it is unlikely that the syndrome is limited to there. It is well known that adverse life events can detrimentally affect mental health, but it is less appreciated that intense experiences, that would otherwise be considered positive, can have similar effects. Accordingly, it would be prudent to counsel patients with pre-existing mental illness ahead of visits to places of high personal and emotional significance.
She observes and describes similar cases in tourists in Florence and in addition to being considered a syndrome with clinical consideration, has also been taken into account as the highest level of artistic beauty to which a person is subjected. Amongst this hundred cases, both Nordic and North American tourists predominate, who also arrive in Florence after having visited other cities in Italy such as Rome or Venice.
This psychiatrist is the author who has observed more cases and the person who has written a book about this syndrome, offering also different explanations of psychoanalytic character, since it is a follower of Freud Y Lacan. Grazieala Magherini, who has given possible hypotheses about the origin of this syndrome, has therefore found it in foreign patients who visit Florence and those who are attacked?
During the contemplation of artistic works. The book she writes is published and distributed throughout Europe a decade later, in the late s, where she recounts in a clinical way the cases she has attended in Florence. In his book, in addition to his own cases, he also refers to the same effects experienced by visitors to Italian art in the nineteenth century. This syndrome is caused by the fact that the subject contemplates a great amount of beauty, so that it reaches a species of ecstasy with different symptoms.
Most of the cases that Magherini observed at the observatory of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in the center of Florence were pictures of psychic discomfort, brief pictures, with an acute and unexpected beginning. Symptoms found by people with Stendhal syndrome include both physical and psychological symptoms, including:.
These last five symptoms more exceptionally. Even so, there are large individual differences, since it can range from simple dizziness in mild cases, to psychotic pictures in the most serious cases. The symptoms are grouped into three groups, depending on perceptual disorders, mood disorders and anxiety states. From the study of different people who have experienced Stendhal syndrome, it is suggested that the symptoms are different according to the individual, but they end up coinciding in some points.
For example, they often coincide in the fact that it takes place in a city characterized by its artistic beauty. In addition, it usually occurs in foreign people and in front of a specific work or a specific artist. One of the characteristics is, therefore, the fact that people are foreign. Some data points to the fact that a hospital in Florence, the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova, welcomes a few cases of Stendhal syndrome each year and all patients are foreigners.
One of the earliest attributions about the origin of Stendhal's syndrome comes from an excess of beauty. One of the explanations that have been offered for the syndrome of Stendhal, of psychoanalytic cut, comes from part of Dr. Magherini, that indicates that arises by the fact of being before the original work. It is a subjective sensation on the part of the subject that does not have to do with any phylogenetic explanation, but is produced by the fact of being the subject before a creative work created by another congener, to find before the original and real work that we have seen previously in pictures.
There is a bewilderment caused by the maximum pleasure in observing a work created by the human being. This maximum pleasure surpasses, to put it somehow, its limit, and becomes an unpleasant and annoying sensation for the person. Other authors give different explanations. For example, another explanation for the syndrome has to do with expectations. The person, before traveling and contemplating the work, has created some expectations.
Therefore, when arriving and posing before the work, he experiences a surprise to see his expectations surpassed. We all create expectations or schemes about what will happen according to the knowledge we have. When we are slightly surprised, we feel pleasure. But when they are overcome and linked to the characteristics of the situation, a violation of expectations can lead to a situation where control is lost.
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