1. Part 1: Ionia
Part 2: Alice Wilson
Part 3: Octavius Greene
Part 4: Caesar Williams
Legal loophole
Schizophrenia/dementia praecox
Abuse/institutional abuse –
Institutionalized violence
Deinstitutionalization
Splitting
Anger, violent tendencies
Patients = Society’s damned/condemned
Social context, public view, common sense
Shifting treatments/
Drug development
Modern medicine / generic images of “primitive” otherness
Misery
electroshock therapy
“Punitive” treatments
Idyllic sanitarium/summer camp/torture
Narrative/writing style
Insensitivity: re cultural difference(s) – as underlying mental health institutions
(wherein “race” = stand in for understanding cultural difference)
Criminally insane/insane criminals
(black) Masculinity
Emotional disharmony
Idleness/masculinized charisma Presentism/Presentism
Freedom
What happens to embodied “personhood”
when detention (per the rule of legal
fictions like “non-persons” - to put it “nicely,” is the norm?
The double-self
Unease – in Interactions:
Medical problem/
Political problem
A N X I E T Y
Violence/Stigma/
Schizophrenic Non-self
