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2017 | Book

Introduction: Popular Panics Read chapter Read first chapter

Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

Author: Prof. Anthony Carlton Cooke

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Part of: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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This book argues that cultural fascination with the “madperson” stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization—the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care. Anthony Carlton Cooke explores the reciprocal spheres of influence between deinstitutionalization, representations of the “murderous, mentally ill individual” in the horror, crime, and thriller genres, and the growth of public associations of violent crime with mental illness.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Chapter 1. Introduction: Popular Panics
Abstract
In the 1992 documentary, The Art of Horror, Clive Barker makes an extraordinary claim. He says that when the new millennium begins and we look back to discover the images that shaped twentieth-century Western culture, among the most prevalent we will find Mickey Mouse, King Kong, Fay Wray, and Hollywood actor Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster (Barker 1992).
Anthony Carlton Cooke
Chapter 2. From the “Feebleminded Offender” to the “Sexual Psychopath”
Abstract
In 1907, Clifford Beers, an ex-asylum patient, published a memoir, A Mind That Found Itself, in which he called for treatment reforms in mental institutions (Grob Grob in The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, p. 152. 1994.)
Anthony Carlton Cooke
Chapter 3. Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of the “Slasher”
Abstract
The deinstitutionalization movement in the United States officially began on 5 February 1963, when President John F. Kennedy revealed to Congress his project for a new public policy regarding national mental health care (Torrey 2014, p. 55).
Anthony Carlton Cooke
Chapter 4. The Forensic Detective as Panic Figure
Abstract
Public identification of the mentally ill revolves around four markers: “labels … (people who are publically known as mentally ill), “bizarre behavior … poor social skills … and physical appearance” (Schumacher et al. 2003, p. 469).
Anthony Carlton Cooke
Chapter 5. The Panic Figure and the Psychopath: A Psychical Correspondence
Abstract
In Mindhunter , Douglas (1996) promotes his idea of criminal profiling as superior to psychiatric evaluation by relating an interview with a repeat offender, Gary Trapnell: “He [Trapnell] said that if I gave him a copy of the current edition of DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and pointed to any condition … he could convince any psychiatrist that he was genuinely suffering from the affliction,” an event that led Douglas to create the Crime Classification Manual (CCM) (pp. 346–347).
Anthony Carlton Cooke
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Metadata
Title
Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture
Author
Prof. Anthony Carlton Cooke
Copyright Year
2017
Electronic ISBN
978-3-319-47979-8
Print ISBN
978-3-319-47978-1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47979-8