Psychosomatic imagery : photographic reflections on mental disorders / Ali Shobeiri, Helen Westgeest, editors.
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, meta...
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Palgrave Macmillan,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.