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Psychosomatic imagery : photographic reflections on mental disorders / Ali Shobeiri, Helen Westgeest, editors.

Shobeiri, Ali.; Westgeest, Helen.
2023
TR708 .P79 2023
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Title
Psychosomatic imagery : photographic reflections on mental disorders / Ali Shobeiri, Helen Westgeest, editors.
ISBN
3031227158 electronic book
9783031227158 (electronic bk.)
303122714X
9783031227141
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22715-8
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-22715-8 doi
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TR708 .P79 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification
778.9961608
Summary
This book explores the potential of specific photographic images for reflecting on experiences of mental disorders. Instead of looking at photographs of (people suffering from) mental disorders, this volume aspires to comprehend the complexities of such conditions through photographic lexicons, metaphors, and practices. For this book, a mental disorder is not to be seen as a dysfunction or impairment, but a state in which the sustaining balance of stable and unstable mind is unsettled, which may induce mental/bodily disturbances. The term psychosomatic refers to the interaction of the mind (psyche) with the body (soma); it refers to their co-dependence. By the term Psychosomatic Imagery this volume refers to a distinctive trope of photographic images that deal with the body-mind interaction during the states of mental disorders. This novel theoretical framework in photography theory instigates critical discussions about the experiences of mental disorders visualized as disturbed corporeal and mental perceptions of the world. While the introduction of the volume unpacks and assesses the applications of photography in mental disorder studies from theoretical and historical perspectives, the chapters focus on specific cases of Psychosomatic Imagery in contemporary photography. Those cases include, but are not limited to: PTSD, hysteria, paranoia, psychosis, bipolar disorder, and Hikikomori.
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Shobeiri, Ali.
Westgeest, Helen.
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Part 1: Secluded Subjects and Sociable Objects
Ali Shobeiri, The Room is the World: Reflecting on the Lived Experience of Hikikomori through Photography
Stefaan Vervoort, Objects as Friends: Societal Dysfunction and Photography in the Work of Harald Thys and Jos de Gruyter
Part 2. Psychosomatic Disruptions and Distortions Laura Bertens, Traces of Absence: the (Im)possibility of Representing the Phantom Limb
Karen van Minnen, Ghost Feelings and Distortion: Redefining Dis-ease
Part 3. Traversing Hysteria and Bipolar Disorder
Paul Grace, Reconfiguring the Photography of Hysteria
Eric Patel, Buried Images: Indian Photography and Mental Health
Part 4: Images Mediating between Two Worlds
Helen Westgeest, Photographic Visions on Mentally Disordered Experiences of the World Outside: Meaningful Disruption in Psychosomatic Imagery
Ana Peraica, Selfies and the Fear of Facing the World Unmediated.

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