Abstract
Early onset or childhood schizophrenia has been a vexing problem for psychiatry and psychology going back to Freud (1978). It is perhaps only with theories arising through the antipsychiatry movement of the 1960s (Laing, 1967, 1969), that we find alternative ways of understanding childhood schizophrenia in ways that offer some possibilities for nonpharmaceutical intervention. The roots of possibility for rethinking childhood madness lie in the fact that antipsychiatry tended to view madness as something that was socially constructed, in contrast to the traditional assumption that it was a pathology within the individual (Bourg, 2007). By exploring alternative modes of understanding human experiences within this framework, there may be ways to open up a range of opportunities, both for being in the world, as well as for different forms of therapeutic aids for those in distress. One such therapeutic tool that could provide a means to explore the experience of alternative perception with young people is literature. Specifically, I will demonstrate how literature can provide insight into the experiences of those children who have been diagnosed with early-onset schizophrenia and how those insights can open up a space for thinking about schizophrenia outside of the traditional medical model.
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Morris, B. (2016). Lines of Flight: Minoritarian Literature as a Means to Deterritorialize Early-Onset Schizophrenia. In: Skott-Myhre, H., Pacini-Ketchabaw, V., Skott-Myhre, K.S.G. (eds) Youth Work, Early Education, and Psychology. Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137480040_12
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