Entangled Matters—Alzheimer’s, Interiority, and the ‘Unflattening’ of the World

Leibing, Annette

doi:10.1007/s11013-008-9091-5

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“…As others have noted, such critique is international in its nature (Beaulieu 2003; Leibing 2008), and as longstanding as its referent (Rosenberg 2007); certainly, evidence of “anti-reductionism” has appeared in a number of forms within the BJP over the last fifty years (e.g. Bannister 1972; Krauss 1972; Lake 1972; Walton 1966).…”

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The Endurance of Uncertainty: Antisociality and Ontological Anarchy in British Psychiatry, 1950–2010

Pickersgill¹

2014

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ArgumentResearch into the biological markers of pathology has long been a feature of British psychiatry. Such somatic indicators and associated features of mental disorder often intertwine with discourse on psychological and behavioral correlates and causes of mental ill-health. Disorders of sociality – particularly psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder – are important instances where the search for markers of pathology has a long history; research in this area has played an important role in shaping how mental health professionals understand the conditions. Here, I characterize the multiplicity of psychiatric praxis that has sought to define the mark of antisociality as a form of “ontological anarchy.” I regard this as an essential feature of the search for biological and other markers of an unstable referent, positing that uncertainties endure – in part – precisely because of attempts to build consensus regarding the ontology of antisociality through biomedical means. Such an account is suggestive of the co-production of biomarkers, mental disorder, and psychiatric institutions.

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The Endurance of Uncertainty: Antisociality and Ontological Anarchy in British Psychiatry, 1950–2010

Pickersgill¹

2014

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“…The psyche is becoming flattened out and mapped onto the corporeal space of the brain itself’ (2000, p. 508). For Liebing (2008), this ‘biologisation’ of the person has become an issue because, she suggests, there is a driving, moral concern to posit, but also to think through, some notion of the fleshy human as opposed to the fleshy animal. Certainly, there is evidence in human geography of a desire to locate and explore this particular space; associated in large part with feminist and psychoanalytic lines of inquiry, however, these do not seek to recover the place of thought, but rather the critical role of emotions in producing a sense of self and place.…”

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Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography

Dixon

Straughan

2010

Geography Compass

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Dixon DP, Straughan ER.(2010). Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography. Geography Compass, 4(5),449-459.Considerable attention within geography has been paid to the physiologies, knowledges and practices that give substance and import to the senses ? sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch ? and the manner in which these work alone, or in concert, to facilitate particular forms of relations between and amongst people, other life forms and objects. This article takes stock of the manner in which touch has entered into these debates and in particular of recent efforts to place touch, touching and being touched within non-essentialist, human geographic analyses. In doing so it draws attention, first, to studies that have used ?non? or ?more than? representational theory to emphasise the role of pathic, or precognitive, experiences of place in the production of proximal forms of knowledge and second, to work that explores the inter-play between the ?interior? psychologies of intimacy and indifference, acceptance and alienation (i.e. feelings of being in/losing/being out of touch) and the ?exterior,? corporeal work of texture and friction, push and feel. We conclude by calling for more critical attention to the work of touch in constructing scaled geographies and the recognition of legal and jurisdictional geographies in determining where, when and how touching takes place, the designation of touching as ?good? or ?bad? and the imposition of penalties in response to touch.Peer reviewe

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“…In the last several decades, a variety of psychosocial therapies have been integrated into the active treatment of affected persons, with the intention of improving health outcomes. The international person‐centered care movement (Kitwood) has advanced the ecological belief that individuals with dementia are more deeply affected by the external psychosocial factors that surround them than was commonly recognized by a reductionist model that frames dementia as an isolated pathology in individual brains (Leibing). Advocates of this movement believe that too exclusive a preoccupation with brain pathology distracts society from recognizing that cognitive changes occur in living persons who can both be negatively affected by impoverished environments and positively affected by supportive environments that encourage more humanizing interactions (Cohen‐Mansfield and Werner; Sabat; Sabat and Harre; Fazio).…”

Section: An Ecological Bio‐psychosocial Framework For Brain Agingmentioning

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Conceptualizing the Cognitive and Functional Benefits of PlayingBeatles Rock Bandfrom an Ecological, Bio-Psychosocial Perspective

George

2010

Journal of Popular Music Studies

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The Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that, "Without music, life would be a mistake." Indeed, music provides a rich sensory experience that stimulates human beings in a multitude of ways, by altering our moods, reintroducing us to emotions and memories long associated with melodies, impelling us to dance, move, and sing, and connecting us to others. While much recent music-related technology-Walkmans, CD players, iPods, etc.-have progressively transformed listening into a private experience, the emergence of video games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero has encouraged interactive social and kinesthetic elements to the enjoyment of music. The basic concept of these games is that players track multi-colored notes as they cascade down the television screen and touch corresponding buttons and strum bars on handheld controller-instruments in an effort to replicate a rock song in real time.The release (9/9/09) of a new game called Beatles Rock Band has commanded massive media attention and brought global renown to the Guitar Hero/Rock Band format. The New York Times has gone so far as to call Beatles Rock Band "the most important video game yet made," 1 while Time Magazine asked whether a popular interactive game interface featuring The Beatles will "save music" 2 by changing the way future generations listen to and interact with songs. Scholarship in human ecology has already begun to take seriously the ways in which games in the Guitar Hero/Rock Band format impact human wellness, and studies have evaluated how different aspects of game play can improve quality of life (QOL) for the visually impaired (Yuan and Folmer). While precaution must be taken to guard against the positivist hype that often surrounds the release of new technology, it is worth considering, from a human ecology perspective, the bio-psychosocial effects that games in the Guitar Hero/Rock Band format could have on those who play it. In this article, I wish to conceptualize the specific pathways through which a dynamic game such as Beatles Rock Band-which, given C 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Entangled Matters—Alzheimer’s, Interiority, and the ‘Unflattening’ of the World

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

The Endurance of Uncertainty: Antisociality and Ontological Anarchy in British Psychiatry, 1950–2010

The Endurance of Uncertainty: Antisociality and Ontological Anarchy in British Psychiatry, 1950–2010

Geographies of Touch/Touched by Geography

Conceptualizing the Cognitive and Functional Benefits of PlayingBeatles Rock Bandfrom an Ecological, Bio-Psychosocial Perspective

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