Psychosomatic Imagery: Photographic Reflections on Mental Disorders

Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Photography and Mental Disorders: Then and Now
	Psychosomatic Imagery
	Structure of the Book
	References
Part I: Secluded Subjects and Sociable Objects
	Chapter 2: The Room Is the World: Reflecting on the Lived Life of Hikikomori Through Photography
		Hikikomori: A Radical Social Withdrawal
		The Lived Place of Hikikomori
		The Lived Time of Hikikomori
		References
	Chapter 3: Objects as Friends: Depression and Photography in the Work of Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys
		Depression in de Gruyter and Thys’ Videos
		Photography and Still Life in de Gruyter and Thys’ Photographic Work
		References
Part II: Psychosomatic Disruptions and Distortions
	Chapter 4: Traces of Absence: the (Im)Possibility of Representing the Phantom Limb
		Representing the Invisible
		After Image
		Ambiguous Traces
		Traces of Existence
		Traces of Memory
		References
	Chapter 5: “Let Me Die, or I’ll Perish”: Dissolution and Resurrection Through the Photographic Double
		Staging the Photographic Double
		Acknowledging the Symptomatic Gaze
		References
	Chapter 6: Ghost Feelings and Distortion: Redefining Dis-Order
		Rhythms and Relations
		The Frame, the Photograph, and the Trap
		Disarticulation, Dis-order, and the Integrated Reject
		References
Part III: Traversing Hysteria and Bipolar Disorder
	Chapter 7: Somatic Signals: Nicole Jolicoeur’s Aura Hysterica
		The Perverse Reconfigurations of Aura Hysterica
		Somatic Language Against Projectile Representation
		Photography and Hysteria
		Aura Hysterica as a Détournement of Typology
		Somatic Semiotics
		References
	Chapter 8: Buried Images, Ritual Selves: Looking at South Asian Mental Health in Gauri Gill’s Acts of Appearance
		Perspectives on Bipolar Disorder
		My Friend Has Changed: Image and In/Visibility
		Adivasi Masks: Thresholds of Spatiality/Temporality
		Coda
		References
Part IV: Images Mediating Between Two Worlds
	Chapter 9: Photographic Visions of Mentally Disordered Perceptual Experiences: Disruptions in Zellweger’s and Simonutti’s Psychosomatic Imagery
		Photographic and Deviating Perceptions as Theoretical Framework
		The Photograph as Reflection of Multiple Perceptual Experiences
		The Photograph as a Veil Between Two Worlds
		Disturbed Interaction Due to Disruptive Frames
		References
	Chapter 10: Selfies as “Control Pictures”: Mastering Fearful Psychosomatic Images Through the Photo Camera
		Mastering the World Behind Our Backs
		Recording of Corpses and the Metaphor of Death in Photography Theory
		Necrophiliac Images and Dark Selfies
		A Psychosomatic Fearful Image Turned into a Dark Selfie as Control Picture
		References
Index