Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery

<p>Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane: The Narrative Medicine of Socio-Psychiatric Recovery provides a detailed document of the author’s recovery from psychotic mental illness. This collection includes a curated selection of vignettes ranging from humorous to surrealist to downright grim. The hybrid-genre work takes readers into a tapestry of topics, including type I manic-psychotic bipolar, comorbid diagnoses, pop-culture and AI, philosophy of the mind, bisexual identity, Ehlers-Danlos and physical pain, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, the art of standup comedy, and cross-diagnoses friendships – all within the context of an American, late-stage capitalist system. This long list of topics is matched by the wide range of genres employed through the duration of this text. Within an adult millennial identity, she writes through experiences spanning from 2010 - 2023. The physical settings range from public locked unit hospitals in and around San Francisco, to conducting spiritual rituals under the fog of Northern California bay waters, amongst the coyote brush. Lucid, Likable, and Hopefully Sane is the seed of a longer multi-genre memoir.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Fine Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Creative Writing

Year dc:date.available

2023

Author dc:creator

• Laporte, Abby Peyton

Contributors dc:contributor

• Judy Halebsky, PhD
• Claudia Morales, PhD

• bipolar
• hybrid genre
• mental health
• narrative medicine
• EDS
• medical memoir
• Creative Writing
• Disability Studies
• Psychiatric and Mental Health

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.dominican.edu/creative-writing-masters-theses/22

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.dominican.edu:creative-writing-masters-theses-1021