Poetry Talks Back to Psychiatry: Poetic Retellings of Psychiatric Experience in Venezuela

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Title:	Poetry Talks Back to Psychiatry: Poetic Retellings of Psychiatric Experience in Venezuela
Authors:	Llorens, Manuel
Keywords:	poetry psychiatry survivor literature
Date Issued:	2010
Publisher:	University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies
Citation:	Llorens, M. (2010). Poetry Talks Back to Psychiatry: Poetic Retellings of Psychiatric Experience in Venezuela. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 6(2).
Series:	vol. 6, no. 2
Abstract:	The following paper explores three Venezuelan contemporary poets who wrote about their psychiatric experiences. Through their poems they “talk back” to a psychiatric language that medicalized their suffering and stripped their experiences of meaning. The parallels between their writings and psychiatric survivor literature are considered.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/58442
ISSN:	1552-9215
Appears in Collections:	RDS Volume 6, No. 2

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