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Peering Outside the Silo: Portrayals of Mental Disorders and the Education of Healthcare Professionals

Peering Outside the Silo: Portrayals of Mental Disorders and the Education of Healthcare Professionals. David H. Flood, PhD Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, USA. Literature and Madness. Literature Course Literature “about” madness. Healthcare Course Madness through literature

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Peering Outside the Silo: Portrayals of Mental Disorders and the Education of Healthcare Professionals

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  1. Peering Outside the Silo: Portrayals of Mental Disorders and the Education of Healthcare Professionals David H. Flood, PhD Drexel University Philadelphia, PA, USA

  2. Literature and Madness • Literature Course • Literature “about” madness • Healthcare Course • Madness through literature • Mental disorders as seen through literature; analyzed using literary theories, concepts

  3. from www.global-integration.com

  4. The instructor --My evolution towards medical humanities • The students --Health sciences context • The course --Specific examples of application

  5. The Students • What do they need? • What do they want? • How can my course help?

  6. Relevance • Patient/client communication • Professional and personal self • Problem solving • Empathy (stories vs. labels)

  7. Tools of literary analysis • narrative theory: coherence • narrative deconstruction • narrative therapy • narrative psychology Macro level—narrative structure, plot, theme

  8. Gogol, “The Diary of a Madman” (1835) Ilya Repin, Poprishchin [Gogol’s madman] (1882)

  9. Parker, “Big Blonde” (1929) From The Portable Dorothy Parker

  10. Tom Wesselmann, Big Blonde, 1989

  11. Deconstruction • Cognitive therapy • Narrative therapy • Narrative psychology

  12. Micro/Elemental Level • Metaphor • Symbol • Word choice • Tone • Details Harry Clarke, “The Tell-Tale Heart” illustration, 1919

  13. Deconstruction • Dissonance • Intentional fallacy • Cognitive therapy • Narrative therapy • Narrative psychology

  14. Reader Response Criticism • Patient as text • The Elephant Man • The Scream

  15. Gil Lesser, cover for play (1979)

  16. Edvard Munch, The Scream (1893)

  17. Theme song for Madness and Literature (Napoleon XIV: “They’re Coming to Take Me Away,” 1966) newmradio.wordpress.com

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