Adventures in the DSM-5: Three Prose Collages
Georgia Poplett’s three prose collages combine acrostic poetics with surrealist erasure techniques, exploring the lived experience of postpartum psychosis.
‘A Philosophy of Madness’ Book Forum: Part Three
Becki Smith reviews A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020) by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier). This is Part Three of a Book Forum on A Philosophy
‘A Philosophy of Madness’ Book Forum: Part One
Jeremy Spandler reviews A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020) by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier). This is Part One of a Book Forum on A Philosophy
‘Disalienation’: Book Review
Frances Williams reviews Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Post-war France (University of Chicago Press, 2021) by Camille Robcis. The title of Camille Robcis’ book, Disalienation, presents an intriguing paradox: a positive state of
Review of Jasper Gibson’s “The Octopus Man”
Robyn Thomas reviews Jasper Gibson’s The Octopus Man We are all by now familiar with the three act structure: man is healthy, man becomes mentally ill, man recovers and lives stably ever after. While such
Getting mental illness right in gaming
Beata Gubacsi explores the representation of mental illness in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and other recent games in her regular column, Medical Humanities 2.0: Recently, there’s been an increasing interest in the interactions of gaming,