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Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine (Hardcover)
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Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Literature
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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.
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