{"id":11403,"date":"2015-10-19T22:09:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T22:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-dsm-5-as-a-dystopian-novel-book-of\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T23:56:54","slug":"shrinkrants-dsm-5-as-a-dystopian-novel-book-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-dsm-5-as-a-dystopian-novel-book-of\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11403 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/shrinkrants-dsm-5-as-a-dystopian-novel-book-of\/attachment\/11404\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mv0qzhHTPM1rbuuryo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mv0qzhHTPM1rbuuryo1_640-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mv0qzhHTPM1rbuuryo1_640-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mv0qzhHTPM1rbuuryo1_640-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mv0qzhHTPM1rbuuryo1_640.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/shrinkrants.tumblr.com\/post\/64674914685\">shrinkrants<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>DSM 5 AS A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\">Book of Lamentations<\/h1>\n<div class=\"author\">By\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/author\/skriss\/\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Posts by Sam Kriss\">SAM KRISS<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/book-of-lamentations\/\">The New Inquiry<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026 The narrative voice of the book affects a tone of clinical detachment, one in which drinking coffee and paranoid-type schizophrenia can be discussed with the same flat tone. Under the pretense of dispassion this voice embodies a whole raft of terrifying preconceptions. Just like the neurological disorders that appear at the start of the book, mental illnesses appear like lightning bolts, with all their aura of divine randomness. Even when etiologies are mentioned they\u2019re invariably held to be either genetic or refer to other illnesses such as substance abuse disorders. At no point is there any sense that madness might be socially informed, that the forms it takes might be a reflection of the influences and pressures of the world that surrounds us.<\/p>\n<p>The idea emerges that every person\u2019s illness is somehow their own fault, that it comes from nowhere but themselves: their genes, their addictions, and their inherent human insufficiency. We enter a strange shadow-world where for someone to engage in prostitution isn\u2019t the result of intersecting environmental factors (gender relations, economic class, family and social relationships) but a symptom of \u201cconduct disorder,\u201d along with \u201clying, truancy, [and] running away.\u201d A mad person is like a faulty machine. The pseudo-objective gaze only sees what they do, rather than what they think or how they feel. A person who shits on the kitchen floor because it gives them erotic pleasure and a person who shits on the kitchen floor to ward off the demons living in the cupboard are both shunted into the diagnostic category of encopresis. It\u2019s not just that their thought-process don\u2019t matter, it\u2019s as if they don\u2019t exist. The human being is a web of flesh spun over a void.<\/p>\n<p>full article <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/book-of-lamentations\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madinamerica.com\/2013\/10\/dsm-5-dystopian-novel\/\">Mad in America<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shrinkrants: DSM 5 AS A DYSTOPIAN NOVEL Book of Lamentations By\u00a0SAM KRISS\u00a0 at The New Inquiry \u2026 The narrative voice of the book affects a tone of clinical detachment, one in which drinking coffee and paranoid-type schizophrenia can be discussed with the same flat tone. Under the pretense of dispassion this voice embodies a whole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2XV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11403\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}