Disability Studies and the Language of Mental Illness
| dc.contributor.author | Aubrecht, Katie | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-08T23:36:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-08T23:36:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Much has been written about the dangers of mental illness, both by psychiatry as an empirical reality and by anti-psychiatry as a cultural category (Szasz, 1960). This paper considers how the language of mental illness, and more specifically, the discipline of psychiatry, structures how we relate to our everyday lives. I examine how the language of mental illness, and the psychiatric practices which have made this language possible, have conditioned the development of a disability studies community, culture and identity. This examination will involve a critical analysis of writing in the field of disability studies which illustrates the complex interconnections and interdependencies between self-identifying as a disabled person and rediscovering the aspects of oneself that have been stolen or stamped out by the imposition of a language of mental illness. This paper also aims to uncover some of the implicit assumptions about the nature of the relationship between language, culture, identity, and community. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Aubrecht, K. (2012). Disability Studies and the Language of Mental Illness. Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal, 8(2). | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1552-9215 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/58522 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa -- Center on Disability Studies | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | vol. 8, no. 2 | |
| dc.subject | Disability Studies | |
| dc.subject | language | |
| dc.subject | community | |
| dc.title | Disability Studies and the Language of Mental Illness | |
| dc.type | Research Articles and Essays | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |