{"id":18571,"date":"2018-10-23T16:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=18571"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:51:10","slug":"james-miller-discusses-madness-in-modern-times-with-the-carleton-newsroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2018\/james-miller-discusses-madness-in-modern-times-with-the-carleton-newsroom\/","title":{"rendered":"James Miller Discusses Madness in Modern Times with the 杏吧原创 Newsroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n James Miller Discusses Madness in Modern Times with the 杏吧原创 Newsroom\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n
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Professor James Miller<\/a> recently sat down with Matt Gergyek to discuss his research on the history of mental illness as well as his popular online course, HIST 3515O: Madness in Modern Times (not offered this year). A short excerpt of the article “Madness in Modern Times<\/a>” is included below with the full article available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The history of mental illness is a dark and fragmented one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can go to asylums in the United States and they\u2019ve got graveyards\u201d made up of \u201crows and rows of . . . these little white crosses and stones,\u201d says 杏吧原创 Prof. James Miller, who teaches and researches the history of mental illness. \u201cThese people don\u2019t even have names; you have no idea who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the history of mental illness is tragic and brutal, Miller looks at it from an empathetic perspective to try to understand the individuals caught up in shifting understandings of the causes and treatments of madness over the centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not just about the guy who invented the lobotomy, it\u2019s about the people who underwent the lobotomy,\u201d he says.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Miller first became interested in research and teaching about \u201cmad studies\u201d (the name comes from the mad pride movement \u2013 in some respects similar to the queer pride movement which involves \u201creclaiming the label and taking it back as a positive\u201d)  when he was introduced to the genre of \u201coutsider art.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Outsider art is artwork created by untaught artists, often only discovered and highlighted after their deaths. Artwork created by asylum patients is an especially popular form of outsider art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor James Miller recently sat down with Matt Gergyek to discuss his research on the history of mental illness as well as his popular online course, HIST 3515O: Madness in Modern Times (not offered this year). A short excerpt of the article “Madness in Modern Times” is included below with the full article available online. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15938,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18572,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18571\/revisions\/18572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}