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Welcome to Arkham Asylum - Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City Institution (Paperback)
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Welcome to Arkham Asylum - Essays on Psychiatry and the Gotham City Institution (Paperback)
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Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman
universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books,
graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The
Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has
tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines
reference clinical and ethical controversies that perplex even the
most up-to-date professionals. The 25 essays in this collection
explore the significance of Arkham's sinister psychiatrists,
murderous mental patients, and unethical geneticists. It invites
debates about the criminalization of the mentally ill, mental
patients who move from defunct state hospitals into expanding
prisons, madness versus badness, sociopathy versus psychosis, the
"insanity defense" and more. Invoking literary figures from
Lovecraft to Poe to Caligari, the 25 essays in this collection are
a broad-ranging and thorough assessment of the franchise and its
relationship to contemporary psychiatry.
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