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Disorientations: Literary Storytelling as a Means of Recreating Experiences of Mental Illness /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Disorientations: Literary Storytelling as a Means of Recreating Experiences of Mental Illness // Alexander Kris.
Author:	Kris, Alexander,
Description:	1 electronic resource (219 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-06B.
Subject:	Mental health. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31767738
ISBN:	9798346874386

Disorientations: Literary Storytelling as a Means of Recreating Experiences of Mental Illness /
Kris, Alexander,

Disorientations: Literary Storytelling as a Means of Recreating Experiences of Mental Illness /Alexander Kris. - 1 electronic resource (219 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-06, Section: B.

This dissertation demonstrates that literary storytelling can play an indispensable role in communicating experiences of mental illness. What is often missing from both clinical and popular descriptions of mental illness is a sense of what it is like to live with mental illness on a day-to-day basis. To address this deficit, I examine the methods by which literary works, through the production of an individualized perspective, offer instantiations of what I call "body-mind-worlds" via a storytelling process I call "body-mind-worldbuilding." Whereas worldbuilding refers to the process of imagining and constructing a living, breathing fictional world within which a story may take place, body-mind-worldbuilding involves constructing the system of relations between a person's body, a person's mind, and the world that body-mind inhabits. Through body-mind-worldbuilding, a literary work can reconstruct the complex and unique structures of feeling and mentation through which mental illness is experienced by an individual, while simultaneously situating these experiences of mental illness within the social and cultural contexts within which they emerge. I use the word "disorientation" to describe a system of relations between a person's body, mind, and world that produces conflict rather than harmony, such that body, mind, and world cannot be integrated without causing a great deal of mental, physical, and/or emotional distress for the person in question. The four chapters of my dissertation examine anhedonia, depression, dissociation, and social anxiety as "disorientations" that structure and transform a person's experience of reality in powerful and distressing ways. Through readings of texts written by authors who struggle with mental illness, I show how literary works can filter reality through the perceptual frame of a neurodivergent consciousness, offering readers the opportunity to perceive and experience reality in the way that it is perceived and experienced by a person with mental illness. It is my hope that, by doing so, it will be possible to imagine new pathways through which neurodivergent persons, allies, and clinicians can work together to find ways of making mental illness less debilitating and less agonizing for those who struggle with it.

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ISBN: 9798346874386Subjects--Topical Terms:

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