Waters, S. R. A. (2021) Disrupted Dialogues: Exploring Misgendered Diagnoses and Experiences of Melancholia and Depression Through the Lens of Pericles and Contemporary Psychiatric Practice. Shakespeare. pp. 296-317. ISSN 1745-0926
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Abstract
This article disrupts present-day readings of women’s
experience of and diagnoses with depression by reading
them in the light of the patriarchally inscribed experience
of melancholia in the early modern period as explored in
Shakespeare and Wilkins’ Pericles. It reads the paralleled
experiences of Pericles and Marina and early modern
proto-medical treatises in the light of contemporary
psychiatric diagnostic practice and psychosocial research. It considers how norms, gendering, and privilege can affect
the way an individual’s expression of their experience is
read, received, diagnosed, and treated, as eroticised cures
are laid against talking therapies in Pericles, and the
gendered application of the labels of melancholia and
depression and the gendered assumptions undergirding
therapeutic interventions are probed. In so doing, it shows
the value of reading early modern drama through a
medical humanities lens to underline the biases which still
have a measurable impact in mental health diagnostic
settings today. The stark consequences of these biases for
women emerge when these texts are brought into
interdisciplinary and transhistorical dialogue. The early
modern and present strands are pulled together by
exploring how Pericles pushes back against the way gender
can be leveraged to mistreat, exploit or silence.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Affect ; Medical humanities ; Gender |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN0080 Criticism P Language and Literature > PR English literature R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Divisions: | School of Humanities & Social Sciences > English Literature > English Literature |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Waters |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2023 16:28 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2023 16:28 |
| URI: | https://bear.buckingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/577 |
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