Gender stereotypes are pervasive. Though Disney has recently come out with some kick-ass princesses (my personal favorites are the icy Elsa and fiery Anna, who don’t need a prince to save them in Frozen), enter any major toy store and you can still find row upon row of pink paraphernalia and sparkly tiaras.
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“People are always selling the idea that people with
mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If
things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.”
These are the words of John Nash, Jr., the Nobel Laureate who inspired the book and the movie A Beautiful Mind
and who suffered from schizophrenia, including paranoid delusions of
grandeur during which he felt he could intercept secret messages with
important content instructing him on how to rescue the planet.
How individuals experiencing psychotic symptoms come to interpret
such messages is a fascinating question. In a recent academic talk,
Stanford psychological anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann addressed this
question by arguing persuasively for the influence of culture on the
symptomatology of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia (for a
great recap of a similar talk by Luhrmann, see this blog post from PLoS).
Strikingly, she claims, positive psychotic symptoms, in particular
hearing voices, manifest differently in different cultures.
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