The Joker: A Dark Night for Depictions of Mental Illness
The heart of the cultural system is what I call the great storytelling process. From childhood onward, stories make the invisible forces of life visible by creating images of people representing ideas and social types, assigning some fate to each. Fictional and dramatic stories show how things work;...
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Published in: | Academic psychiatry Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 145 - 149 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
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New York
Springer New York
01-03-2010
Springer Nature B.V |
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Summary: | The heart of the cultural system is what I call the great storytelling process. From childhood onward, stories make the invisible forces of life visible by creating images of people representing ideas and social types, assigning some fate to each. Fictional and dramatic stories show how things work; news and documentary stories provide selected glimpses of how things are supposed to be. (1, pp 19, 20) |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1042-9670 1545-7230 |
DOI: | 10.1176/appi.ap.34.2.145 |