"Routledge Focus"--from cover

Includes bibliographical references and index

Drawing illness : history, theory, and the development of graphic medicine -- Function of metaphors in illness narratives -- Mental illness and the politics of representation -- Nobody memoirs as counter-discourse : bipolar disorder and its metaphors -- Visual metaphors of OCD and schizophrenia -- Visualizing the fragmented selves : conventional and creative metaphors of depression

"This book investigates how graphic medicine enables sufferers of mental illness to visualize the intricacies of their internal mindscape through visual metaphors and reclaim their voice amidst stereotyped and prejudiced assumptions of mental illness as a disease of deviance and violence"--