DST 500 Chapter Notes -Psy, Intersectionality, Paparazzi

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jijian Voronka

Document Summary

Making bipolar britney: proliferating psychiatric diagnoses through tabloid media. radical psychology, vol. How popular magazines teach the public proper" ways to approach, treat, comply, struggle, and recover from mental illness. Her journey, and the documentation of it by the media, can tell us a lot about how the intersectionalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, and ability play out in popular culture. The mad movement embraces different ways of thinking and being, and places particular emphasis on the problematic ways that psychiatry and other psy discourses in particular, and social/medical systems in general, work to hinder mad peoples" social inclusion. The failure for her to reshape her body into pre-pregnancy form in the months following her second birth came to be understood as a problem in the press. Celebrities and hollywood given credit for teenagers seeking help with mental issues stigma is reduced. Prior to her initial institutionalization, a hostile press continued to prey on.