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oapen-20.500.12657-470382021-03-05T02:28:46Z Chapter 7 Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons Spandler, Helen psychiatry cartoons knowledge practice bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MM Other branches of medicine::MMH Psychiatry This chapter 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. It presents some cartoons that appeared in the UK-based magazine Asylum magazine from 1986-2016 and analyses how they are used to articulate key themes of psychiatric contention: ECT; self-harm; psychiatric diagnosis; and recovery. It suggests the cartoons encapsulate key psychiatric critiques and communicates their critical messages in a vivid, accessible and often humorous way. Moreover, the author suggests they are a distinctive form of what Arthur W Frank has called ‘survivorship as craft’ and tentatively suggests they are a particular ‘style’ of contestation, created by psychiatric survivors. 2021-03-04T10:43:13Z 2021-03-04T10:43:13Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47038 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK558324.pdf Penn State University Press PathoGraphics 09c386a3-3703-4269-ad0d-5c31b279590d fcc323e3-c697-4c52-8cd5-0a9201c0e4b8 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 20 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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This chapter 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. It presents some cartoons that appeared in the UK-based magazine Asylum magazine from 1986-2016 and analyses how they are used to articulate key themes of psychiatric contention: ECT; self-harm; psychiatric diagnosis; and recovery. It suggests the cartoons encapsulate key psychiatric critiques and communicates their critical messages in a vivid, accessible and often humorous way. Moreover, the author suggests they are a distinctive form of what Arthur W Frank has called ‘survivorship as craft’ and tentatively suggests they are a particular ‘style’ of contestation, created by psychiatric survivors.
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