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Summary: | Explores the role of cartoons in contesting psychiatric knowledge and practice, it suggests that cartoons are an increasingly important element in the growing repertoire of contention of the psychiatric survivor movement. It explores how survivor activists have drawn on creative countercultural traditions of art and subversion to create new styles of psychiatric contention. Specifically, it examines the unique role of single-panel cartoons in actively challenging prevailing notions of normalcy, treatments and systems
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Item Description: | Chapter 7 of the book: Patho graphics : narrative, aesthetics, contention, community. University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020] |
Physical Description: | 1 PDF file (pages 115-134) illustrations |