HLTB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Biomedical Model, Mental Disorder, Neurodiversity
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What is depression: who: mental disorder characterized by sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, feelings of guilt, leading cause of disability, more women effected than men, can lead to suicide. Lewis narrating our sadness : names metaphor, plot, character, pov as essential to telling stories of sadness, metaphors: human thought processes are largely metaphorical, plot: emphasis on causality. Ex: the kind died and then the queen died of grief. Ex: the king died and then the queen died: character: characters guide readers through stories, helping readers understand plot and broader themes, character type: stands a representative of particular class or group of people. Characters may be individuated (full realized identity) Compare with stock character: flat, recognizable, clich d (damsel in distress: pov: position the narrator in relation to the story, as indicated by 1) narrator"s outlook and 2) texts attitude toward the character. Introduces insights and blind spots; can be unreliable: depression memoir as therapeutic recovery tool:
