Transnational studies of schizophrenia that detected a differential prognosis for persons in developed versus developing countries and established the influence of family emotional environment on relapse, as well as the perceived efficacy of traditional treatment of mental illne…
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This project seeks to illuminate the relatively neglected subject of male madness in Victorian literature and culture, noting that at least half of the national asylum population in this period were men. Interdisciplinary sources include fiction, popular periodicals, psychiatric…
This thesis examines how madness has been used in post-Yugoslav cinemas to facilitate thinking about experiences of the break-up of the SFRY throughout the 1990s and 2000s, its consequences and implications for the future. The study conceptualises post-Yugoslav film cultures as …
As the scope of liberal democracy expands globally, and its attendant legal apparatus engages increasingly varied kinds of subjects, mental illness remains a resistant, troubling, unaccountable experience, generating confused claims of responsibility for a "vulnerable population…
This study addresses factors that contribute to women's madness in African and Caribbean literature as depicted in four novels by Mariana Bâ, Ken Bugul, and Myriam Warner-Vieyra. In these texts written by women, the loss or absence of family love in childhood and adolescence, th…
This dissertation examines the gradual process by which Mexico came to prohibit marijuana in 1920, thereby giving birth to a war on drugs in that country. Using diverse sources ranging from colonial administrative documents to scientific publications, literature, lithography, an…
Ophelia, an iconic figure of a madness-afflicted woman, has been commonly regarded as a signifier bearing cultural and social significance within changes of cultural context over the duration of the play’s performance history. Building upon David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder’s “na…
Since its beginnings in the 1970s disability activist movement, disability studies scholarship has traditionally focused on physical disability and, in working to deconstruct the figure of the “cripple” as a symbol of pathos, has shied away from close examinations of pain, suffe…
This dissertation examines how Shakespeare approached elements of the supernatural – ghosts, madness, and witchcraft – in his plays. The aftermath of the England’s break from the Catholic Church led to societal upheaval in the way early modern England viewed the supernatural. Pr…
What keeps American political society from recognizing the Mad (commonly called "people with mental illness" or "the mentally ill") as a collective with unique political claims? My answer emerges in what I call a foundational politics of madness–an account of the existing discur…