Metaphors of Mental Illness in Graphic Medicine

This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize 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.

Autorentext

Sweetha Saji is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru. Her areas of research interest include Graphic Medicine and Medical Humanities. She has published over ten research articles in SCI and Scopus indexed journals. She is an ad-hoc reviewer for Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and BMJ Journal of Medical Humanities. She has presented over 12 research papers at International and National conferences organized by prestigious institutions including the University of Granada, Spain, JNU New Delhi, and IIT Madras.

Sathyaraj Venkatesan is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Trichy (India). He is the author of 6 books and over 90 research publications that span African American literature, health humanities, graphic medicine, film studies, and other literary and culture studies disciplines. He is most recently the co-author of Infertility Comics and Graphic Medicine (2021) and India Retold (2021).

Inhalt

Introduction

1 Drawing Illness: History, Theory, and the Development of Graphic Medicine

2 The Function of Metaphors in Retelling Stories of Illness

3 Mental Illness and the Politics of Representation

4 Nobody Memoirs as Counter-Discourse: Bipolar Disorder and its Metaphors

5 Visual Metaphors of OCD and Schizophrenia

6 Visualizing Fragmented Selves: Conventional and Creative Metaphors of Depression

Conclusion