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Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine

2021-10-21 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2021-10-21
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine by : Sweetha Saji

Download or read book Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine written by Sweetha Saji. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualise the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence. In this context, by using Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), this study uncovers the broad spectrum of the mentally ills’ experiences, a relatively undertheorised area in medical humanities. The aim is to demonstrate that mentally ill people are often represented as either grotesquely exaggerated or overly romanticised across diverse media and biomedical discourses. Further, they have been disparaged as emotionally drained and unreasonable individuals, incapable of active social engagements and against the healthy/sane society. The study also aims to unsettle the sanity/insanity binary and its related patterns of fixed categories of normal/abnormal, which depersonalise the mentally ill by critically analysing seven graphic narratives on mental illness.

Lighter Than My Shadow

2013-10-11 Comics & Graphic Novels
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Release : 2013-10-11
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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Book Synopsis Lighter Than My Shadow by : Katie Green

Download or read book Lighter Than My Shadow written by Katie Green. This book was released on 2013-10-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant, heart-lifting graphic memoir about anorexia, eating disorders and the journey to recovery Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She’d sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she’d have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behaviour might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly. Lighter Than My Shadow is a hand-drawn story of struggle and recovery, a trip into the black heart of a taboo illness, an exposure of those who are so weak as to prey on the vulnerable, and an inspiration to anybody who believes in the human power to endure towards happiness. ‘Even at its most heartbreaking it never feels sombre ... Inspiring, plucky and, in the end, consoling, it’s hard to put down’ Observer

Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine

2020-06-11 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2020-06-11
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine by : Anu Mary Peter

Download or read book Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine written by Anu Mary Peter. This book was released on 2020-06-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing an understanding of eating disorders beyond the biological/medical framework has become a necessity in present times, especially when eating disorders are swiftly spreading deep roots across the world. In view of the multidimensional etiology of eating disorders, there are increased efforts towards understanding its phenomenological, cultural, and other related non-medical aspects, and Gender, Eating Disorders, and Graphic Medicine leaps past the prevalent notions on eating disorder, and contributes to the developing corpus of affective knowledge on eating disorders among women through comics and graphic medicine. Taking cues from select graphic narratives on eating disorders, this book attempts to posit graphic medicine as one of the most befitting modes of life writing. This book is distinctive in that it is an attempt not only to explore the multi-dimensional etiology of eating disorders in women using graphic medicine narratives but also to understand how graphic medicine humanizes eating disorders by offering a unique ingress into women’s phenomenological experience of eating disorders.

Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives

2019-01-10 Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc
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Release : 2019-01-10
Genre : Autobiographical comic books, strips, etc
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Book Synopsis Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives by : Elisabeth El Refaie

Download or read book Visual Metaphor and Embodiment in Graphic Illness Narratives written by Elisabeth El Refaie. This book was released on 2019-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors help us understand abstract concepts, emotions, and social relations through the concrete experience of our own bodies. Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which dominates the field of contemporary metaphor studies, is centered on this claim. According to this theory, correlations in the way the world is perceived in early childhood (e.g., happy/good is up, understanding is seeing) persist in our conceptual system, influencing our thoughts throughout life at a mostly unconscious level. What happens, though, when ordinary embodied experience is disrupted by illness? In this book, Elisabeth El Refaie explores how metaphors change according to our body's alteration due to disease. She analyzes visual metaphor in thirty-five graphic illness narratives (book-length stories about disease in the comics medium), re-examining embodiment in traditional CMT and proposing the notion of "dynamic embodiment." Building on recent strands of research within CMT and engaging relevant concepts from phenomenology, psychology, semiotics, and media studies, El Refaie demonstrates how the experience of our own bodies is constantly adjusting to changes in our individual states of health, socio-cultural practices, and the modes and media by which we communicate. This fundamentally interdisciplinary work also proposes a novel classification system of visual metaphor, based on a three-way distinction between pictorial, spatial, and stylistic metaphors. This approach will enable readers to advance knowledge and understanding of phenomena involved in shaping our everyday thoughts, interactions, and behavior.

Rock Steady

2018 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2018
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Rock Steady by : Ellen Forney

Download or read book Rock Steady written by Ellen Forney. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life is the eagerly awaited sequel/ companion book to Forney’s 2012 best-selling graphic memoir, Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me. Whereas Marbles was a memoir about her bipolar disorder, Rock Steady turns the focus outward, offering a self-help survival guide of tips, tricks and tools by someone who has been through it all and come through stronger for it.

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