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
Main Authors: Camp, Mary E., Webster, Cecil R., Coverdale, Thomas R., Coverdale, John H., Nairn, Ray
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 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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ISSN:1042-9670
1545-7230
DOI:10.1176/appi.ap.34.2.145