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Metaphors We Think By, Aldis H. Petriceks
The Journey Of Life, Rolene Yousefyan
The Journey Of Life, Rolene Yousefyan
Akesis
The materials used to create this piece were oil pastels. The inspiration behind this piece was the importance of mental health awareness along with our ability to grow and become who we are today based on our past experiences and history.
A Letter To My Departed Niece, * Anonymous *
A Letter To My Departed Niece, * Anonymous *
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
The following piece was written in the weeks following the death of the author’s niece. It is an attempt to explore how we as a society handle health crises differently for medical versus mental health diagnoses.
Acting Hysterical: Analyzing The Construction, Diagnosis And Portrayal Of Historical And Modern Hysterical Women, Gillian Singer
Acting Hysterical: Analyzing The Construction, Diagnosis And Portrayal Of Historical And Modern Hysterical Women, Gillian Singer
Honors Theses
Hysterical women’s stories from the 19th and 20th centuries have all too often been ignored and furthermore, invalidated through the capitalization and spectacularization of hysterical women’s experiences. “Acting Hysterical: Analyzing the Construction, Diagnosis and Portrayal of Historical and Modern ‘Hysterical’ Women” aims to acknowledge hysterical women’s narratives by studying the visual documentation of hysterical women. Visual documentation of hysteria began with the photographing of Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot’s “hysterical” female patients and extends to modern cinematic representations from the last two decades of historical and modern hysterical women.
Medical Muses, a book based in years of research by Asti Hustvedt served …
"Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor", Seo-Young J. Chu
"Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue In H Minor", Seo-Young J. Chu
Publications and Research
In this lyric essay/work of creative nonfiction (listed among “Notable Essays & Literary Nonfiction” in Best American Essays 2020), Seo-Young Chu uses poetry, autotheory, and creative nonfiction to explore the generational trauma/postmemory han she inherited from her parents and the importance of destigmatizing mental illness through dialogue.