Tag Archives: mental illness

Capturing Alternate Realities: Visual Metaphors and Patient Perspectives in Graphic Narratives on Mental Illness

Venkatesan, S. & Saji, S. (2020) Capturing alternate realities: visual metaphors and patient perspectives in graphic narratives on mental illness, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1809482 ABSTRACT: The diverse affordances of the medium of comics like spatio-temporality and visual rhetorical devices enable artists/patients who suffer from mental illnesses to approximate their experiential reality via graphic narratives. The graphic… Read More »

Capturing Alternate Realities: Visual Metaphors and Patient Perspectives in Graphic Narratives on Mental Illness

Venkatesan, S., & Saji, S. (2021). Capturing alternate realities: visual metaphors and patient perspectives in graphic narratives on mental illness, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 12:5, 924-938, DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2020.1809482 ABSTRACT: The diverse affordances of the medium of comics like spatio-temporality and visual rhetorical devices enable artists/patients who suffer from mental illnesses to approximate their experiential reality via graphic narratives. The graphic… Read More »

Don’t Laugh at the Comics: A Modern Take

Hall, R.C.W., Friedman, S.H. (2020). Don’t Laugh at the Comics: a Modern Take. Acad Psychiatry. https://doi-org/10.1007/s40596-020-01257-2 ABSTRACT: Although comic books may be used to educate the lay public and medical students, the comic book industry and mental health fields have often had a tumultuous relationship—which unfortunately can also yield the opposite result of perpetuating stigma. […]… Read More »

Of Comics and Bipolar Disorder: A Conversation with Rachel Lindsay

Rachel Lindsay

Venkatesan, S., & Saji, S. (2020). Of comics and bipolar disorder: a conversation with Rachel Lindsay. World Literature Today. Retrieved from https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2020/spring/comics-and-bipolar-disorder-conversation-rachel-lindsay-sathyaraj-venkatesan-sweetha ABSTRACT: Rachel Lindsay is a cartoonist based in Vermont and the author of a graphic memoir, RX, that was published in 2018 by Grand Central Publishing. RX explores the powerful interplay of word and image that resists… Read More »

De-stigmatizing Mental Illness through Graphic Medicine

Tsuda, Megumi, “De-stigmatizing Mental Illness through Graphic Medicine” (2019). SKMC JeffMD Scholarly Inquiry, Phase 1, Project 1. https://jdc.jefferson.edu/si_hum_2021_phase1/3/ ABSTRACT: Graphic medicine – or the communication of health-related narratives through images and texts, such as comics – has been increasingly recognized as a powerful educational tool. My project investigates the value of integrating graphic medicine to… Read More »

Fanon’s Police Inspector

Ann E Fink

Fink, A. E. (2019) Fanon’s police inspector, AJOB Neuroscience 10(3), 137-144. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21507740.2019.1632970 ABSTRACT: Frantz Fanon practiced psychiatry in a colonized Algeria during its struggle for independence. In his 1961 work The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon described cases from his treatment of Algerian nationalists and French colonists. I present one of Fanon’s cases as an ethical inquiry into posttraumatic… Read More »

Drawing the Mind: Aesthetics of Representing Mental Illness in Select Graphic Memoirs

Sathyaraj, V., & Saji, S. (2019). Drawing the mind: Aesthetics of representing mental illness in select graphic memoirs, Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459319846930 ABSTRACT: Representation of psychological experiences necessitates a creative use of means of expression. In the field of graphic medicine, autobiographical narratives… Read More »