{"id":1928,"date":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2010\/01\/12\/manic-depression-an-illness-rooted-in-its-dark-past\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"manic-depression-an-illness-rooted-in-its-dark-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2010\/01\/12\/manic-depression-an-illness-rooted-in-its-dark-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Manic Depression: an Illness Rooted in its Dark Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An examination of the modern treatment and diagnosis of bipolar disorder in the light of Michel Foucault   <\/p>\n<p>Territory: Bipolar Disorder \u2013 This project looks at how the term bipolar has been constituted and how it came about, as well as identifying the stigma still attached to diagnosis.  <\/p>\n<p>Michel Foucault: &#8211; Foucault talks of madness and looks back over history to see how the mad were treated and viewed by society and doctors. The constitution of the term \u201cmadness\u201f is historically negative so that today it is often viewed in conjunction with manic depression.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is called \u201cmental illness\u201f is simply alienated madness\u2026\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>Aims: To research the diagnosis and treatment of the disorder, historically linking it to Foucault\u2019s thought.<br \/>\nCase study: America\u2019s Medicated Kids \u2013 Louis Theroux, One Flew Over The Cuckoo\u2019s Nest, Stephen Fry BBC Documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isabel Priestley, 2010, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564,22,123],"tags":[44,87,370],"class_list":["post-1928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-564","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-foucault","tag-health","tag-madness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}