This is a psychiatrist's perspective on Istanbul, where we are led to making choices under uncertainty. The ambiguity of the daily life in Istanbul makes it a challenge that can serve to improve our risk detection skills as well as our outlook towards life.

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İstanbul,
as examined
by her/his psychiatrist)

5. ® How
does
she
affect
her
inhabitants?
® What
do
you
see
and
® What
do
you
feel
when
you
view
the
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Love/hate…
Saz/jazz
Fish and raki/ fish and soda
Fast and slow

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Modern/traditional
Crowded/solitaire

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15. Not
knowing
anything
about
the
geographic
locations
or
directions
is
much
better
than
having
that
information
almost
as
a
habit
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Confusing dilemmas
What about not passing?
Maybe you will pass
Try passing…

17. ® A
transitional
point
® Hard
to
tell
where
it
really
belongs
® Lots
of
ambiguity
and
uncertainty
® Both
create
anxiety
® And
creates
further
confusion
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No seasons in Istanbul,
but a never ending
struggle between
the northerly and southerly winds
(Tanpinar)
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19. ® Hard
to
make
a
choice
® May
trigger
persistent
traits
into
particular
behavor
® Making
a
choice
may
be
easy
or
hard,
but
the
conflict
it
creates
activates
ACC
(proportionate
with
the
temperamental
qualities)
® .
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20. ® Temperament:
persistent
across
time
and
contexts
® Influencing
our
interaction
with
the
external
world
® Mostly
described
on
a
dipole
® Structural
behavioral
characteristics
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21. ® Novelty
seeking
® Harm
avoidance
® Reward
dependence
® persistence
® Genetik
belirlenim.
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24. ® ‘hüzün
….
Or
tristesse‘
(Pamuk)
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(And we should) understand the central importance of hüzün as a
cultural concept conveying worldly failure, listlessness and
spiritual suffering....
...hüzün has been central to Istanbul (say, Turkish) culture, poetry
and everyday life over the past two centuries...
..it is a way of looking at life that
implicates us all, not only spiritual
state but a state of mind that is
ultimately as life affirming as it is
negating.”

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“ Tristesse is not a pain that affects a solitary individual;
hüzün and tristesse both suggest a communal feeling, an
atmosphere and a culture shared by millions...”
Istanbul is fretful, though realist, thus coping with the daily
or eternal hassles…

27. ® vigilance
® flexibility
® Abiding
one’s
principles
® Is
a
requirement
® (the
same
applies
to
the
city
itself)
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waiting…

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30. ® fosters
resilience
in
the
face
of
life’s
uncertainty
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“... to convey these
neighborhoods as
traditional, spoiled
and untouched by
the West, Tanpinar
wrote that 'they were
ruined, they were
poor and wretched'
but had 'retained
their own style and
their own way of
life.'
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“...Istanbul does not carry its hüzün as 'an illness for which
there is a cure' or 'an unbidden pain from which we need to be
delivered': it carries its hüzün by choice.
And so its finds its way back to the melancholy of Burton, .....
echoing its self-denigrating wit, it dares to boast of its
importance in Istanbul life.” O Pamuk, Istanbul:
Memories of a Childhood