Does Film Keep Anti-psychiatry Alive? Aesthetic Knowledge of Mental Illness and Institutions

The paper aims at evaluating contemporary fi lms on psychiatry and their ‘knowledge’ of mental illness: How are mental illness and psychiatric institutions characterized rhetorically, and, are some psychiatric theories more present than others in the epistemological development of the fi lms? I will...

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Main Author: Jette Barnholdt Hansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne/ Polish Rhetoric Society 2015-12-01
Series:Res Rhetorica
Online Access:http://resrhetorica.com/index.php/RR/article/view/97