Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
3319838725
ISBN-13
9783319838724
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Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 23rd, 2018
Print length
191 Pages
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This book argues that cultural fascination with the “madperson” stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization—the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care.
This book argues that cultural fascination with the “madperson” stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization—the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care. Anthony Carlton Cooke explores the reciprocal spheres of influence between deinstitutionalization, representations of the “murderous, mentally ill individual” in the horror, crime, and thriller genres, and the growth of public associations of violent crime with mental illness.
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