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HLTHAGE 4Q03

REPRESENTATIONS OF MENTAL ILLNESS

Undergraduate

Winter 2024 · C01

Topics

  • Jan 10 - Introduction to Madness, Mental Illness, and Differentiatio n
  • Hacking, Madness: Biological or Constructed?
  • Jan 17 - Visualization and Representations
  • Gilman, Seeing the Insane
  • Sturken and Cartwright, Practices of Looking
  • Jan 24 - Techniques of Representation
  • Shoeneman et al. “Interior Landscapes of Mental Disorder”
  • Henderson, “Popular Television and Public Mental Health”
  • Johansson & Sternudd, “Iconography of Suffering in Social Media”
  • Jan 31 - Preparing for Essays and Presentations
  • Russell, “Brave and Afraid”
  • Vice News, “Institutionalized”
  • Feb 7 - Personal Narratives of Mental Illness (Student Co-Facilitation begins)
  • Saks, “My Nightmare in the City of Dreaming Spires”
  • Tauchert, “Notes from My Psychosis”
  • Dixon, “Left of Normal”
  • Vonnegut, "The Eden Express"
  • Feb 14 - Fiction
  • Extract from Plath, The Bell Jar
  • Extract from Kesey, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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