Regaining Control: Neurodiverse Reading and Cognitive Difference in the Neuro-memoir.

通过开发一个读者反应框架，一种文本的方法，侧重于读者对内容的理解，而不是作者的观点或文本的结构，本项目将探讨神经科学讨论精神分裂症对大脑的影响在多大程度上影响精神分裂症回忆录中的陈述和理解。由精神分裂症患者撰写的回忆录是一种不断增长的文学亚类型，在很大程度上尚未被探索。使用跨学科的方法，提请注意精神分裂症的回忆录的非精神分裂症读者的头脑和大脑将展示如何多学科的角度来看，一个条件可以挑战传统的理解的健康和福祉的概念。反过来，这将使精神分裂症的治疗和支持更容易为社会所接受，并为科学、医学和精神分析从业者提供人文主义的见解，最终意味着社会政策也将随着时间的推移而改变。该项目将分为三个部分：第一部分：情境化（2018-9）本部分将首先关注回忆录类型的发展。一旦更广泛的回忆录类型的关键特征已经建立，我将探讨新兴的子类型，重点是神经回忆录。然后，我将概述精神分裂症的神经回忆录如何成为一个亚类型，它有自己独特的多学科比喻，需要在神经批评的透镜下引起注意。今年，我将与受访者、支持和阅读团体建立工作关系。第2部分：复杂性领域（2019-20）这里的重点将是精神分裂症回忆录中出现的其他复杂性领域。这些将是：-围绕作者在精神分裂症的代表中所承担的责任的伦理问题。在精神分裂症的神经回忆录中，现实的感知如何受到挑战，不仅通过幻觉的形式，而且通过处方的精神活性药物。探索这些伦理问题和挑战，作为一个竞争的控制个人有自己的身份，由于条件和他们的治疗经验。第3节：定义神经多样性阅读方法（2020-21）随着精神分裂症神经回忆录的突出和伦理问题的概述，神经回忆录和读者之间的关系可用于概述神经多样性阅读方法。将突出两个不同的领域;-利用围绕认知缺陷的神经科学对话来理解精神分裂症的优点和缺点，如神经回忆录中所述，以及它对读者理解文学叙事和心理健康的影响。对非精神分裂症读者的影响，影响阅读过程，从而影响精神分裂症神经回忆录的潜在社会影响。

By developing a reader-response framework, an approach to a text that focuses on the reader's understanding of the content as opposed to the author's viewpoint or the text's structure, this project will explore the extent to which neuroscientific discussions regarding the effects of schizophrenia on the brain influence representations and understandings of the condition within the schizophrenic memoir. Memoirs authored by those with a schizophrenic spectrum condition are a growing literary sub-genre that remains largely unexplored. Using interdisciplinary methodologies to draw attention to the mind and the brain of the non-schizophrenic reader of the schizophrenic memoir will demonstrate how multidisciplinary perspectives of a condition can challenge conventional understandings of the notions of health and well-being. In turn, this will make treatment and support for schizophrenia more socially accessible as well as providing a humanistic insight for scientific, medical and psychoanalytical practitioners, meaning ultimately that social policy will also be changed over time.This project will be separated into three sections:Section 1: Contextualisation (2018-9)This section will initially focus on the development of the memoir genre. Once key features of the broader memoir genre have been established I will explore the emerging subgenres, focusing on the neuro-memoir. I will then outline how the schizophrenic neuro-memoir has become a subgenre with its own distinct multidisciplinary tropes that demand attention under the neuro-critical lens. During this year I will establish working relationships with interviewees, support and reading groups.Section 2: Areas of complexity (2019-20)Focus here will be on additional areas of complexity that arise within the schizophrenic memoir. These will be:- The ethical concerns surrounding the responsibility an author has in their representation of schizophrenia.- How perceptions of reality are challenged within the schizophrenic neuro-memoir not only through forms of hallucinations but through prescribed psychoactive drugs.- Exploring these ethical concerns and challenges as an emulation of the struggle for control an individual has over their own identity due to the condition and their treatment experiences.Section 3: Defining a Neurodiverse Reading Approach (2020-21)With the distinctness of the schizophrenic neuro-memoir highlighted and the ethical concerns outlined, the relationship between the neuro-memoir and the reader can be used to outline a neurodiverse reading approach. Two distinct areas will be highlighted;- The advantages and disadvantages of utilising neuroscientific dialogues surrounding cognitive deficits to understand schizophrenia as presented in the neuro-memoir and the effect it has on a reader's understanding of the literary narrative and mental well-being.- The influences upon the non-schizophrenic reader that impact the reading process and thus the potential social impact of the schizophrenic neuro-memoir.