The Patient Interview, Part I: Text, Discourse, Performance
Minds may know and be known by cognitions. But persons are enacted rather than known, enacted by performances with a story in mind. William Frank …
The Patient Interview, Part II: Nerves
Read Part I “Nervous” is a term Mrs. Jones uses and applies to herself from the beginning of the examination to its end. Before she …
Race in the Asylum: the Case of Eli Hill, Part II
Part II: Reconstruction Read the beginning of Eli’s story here. The War after the War Eli Hill was among the 179,000 African Americans who served …
Race in the Asylum: the Case of Eli Hill, Part I
Part I: The War There is no column for race in the Dix Hospital admission records during the period of our digitization project (1856-1921). This …
To Live is to Leave Traces: Learning from Adaptive Reuse
Learning from Adaptive Reuse adapted and abridged from: Adaptive Reuse and Community History and Archiving A White Paper And Final Report for: “Rocky Mount Mills: …
On Marginalia and Annotation
To participants in AMST 715, Fall Term, 2020: “Recovering and Representing the Asylum” Annotation as a kind of reader commentary has been around for centuries …
The Patient Interview Part VI: Imagination
At the beginning of her examination, Mrs. Jones is asked by Dr. Anderson to tell the medical staff if there was anything the matter with …
The Patient Interview, Part III: All Torn Up
Mrs. Jones uses the locution “torn up” to describe her feelings about her mother’s also being a patient at Dix and about her sister Pearl’s …
The Patient Interview Part IV: The Interview as Discourse
Another useful humanistic framework for analyzing not only the examination/interview performance and text in question but the practice of medicine and psychiatry in general is …
The Patient Interview Part V: The Diagnostic Revolution
What might be responsible for what appears to have been an epidemic of both dementia praecox and manic depression beginning in 1913? Richard Noll’s American …
