A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations

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E. Deidre Pribram

A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders

Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations

E. Deidre Pribram

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Routledge
27 April 2018

Cultural studies; Disability: social aspects

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

"In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional ""disorders"" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes. The author ties this phenomenon to a tension between two fundamentally different approaches to emotion: an individualist approach, which regards emotions as the property of the individual, whether biologically or psychologically, and a culturalist approach, which regards emotions as collective, social processes with distinctive histories and meanings that work to produce particularized subjects. While she links a strong preference for the individualist construct in Western culture to the rise of the psychological and psychiatric disciplines at the turn of the twentieth century, Pribram also engages with a diverse set of case studies tied to psychological and aesthetic discourses on emotions. These range from Van Gogh’s status as emotionally disordered to the public, emotional aesthetics of 19th century melodrama to the diagnostic categories of the DSMs and the fear of ""globalizing"" emotional disorders in the 21st century. This genuinely interdisciplinary approach makes for a text with potential application in a wide range of disciplines within cultural studies, including sociocultural and historical analysis of psychiatry and psychology, gender theory, subject and identity theory, popular culture studies, and history and theory of the arts."

By: E. Deidre Pribram
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138599536
ISBN 10: 1138599530
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 27 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Madness and Mental Illness 2. The Psychological Self 3. The Artist as Mad Genius 4. Personality Disorders, Biopsychiatry, and the Problem of Social Identity 5. Neuroscience and Other Narratives of Emotional Disorders

E. Deidre Pribram is, most recently, the author of A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations and Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television: Detecting Feeling, as well as co-editor of Emotions: A Cultural Studies Reader. She writes on cultural emotion studies, media studies, gender, and popular culture. She is Professor in the Communications Department of Molloy College, Long Island, New York.

Reviews for A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations

"""This conceptualization of the relationship of cultural entities and emotions makes the book an interesting read and a valuable call for further inquiry."" - Dominique Autschbach, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, in KULT_online. Review Journal for the Study of Culture, Issue 50, 10 May, 2017"