Psychosomatic Imagery | Shobeiri Ali | Twarda

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pThis book explores the potential of specific photographic images for reflecting on experiences of mental disorders. Instead of looking iati photographs of people suffering from mental disorders, this volume aspires to comprehend the complexities of such conditions ithroughi photographic lexicons, metaphors, and practices. For this book, a mental disorder is not to be seen as a dysfunction or impairment, but a state in which the sustaining balance of stable and unstable mind is unsettled, which may induce mentalbodily disturbances. The term psychosomatic refers to the interaction of the mind psyche with the body soma it refers to their co-dependence. By the term Psychosomatic Imagery this volume refers to a distinctive trope of photographic images that deal with the body-mind interaction during the states of mental disorders. This novel theoretical framework in photography theory instigates critical discussions about the experiences of mental disorders visualized as disturbed corporeal

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