Download or read book Madness, Marginalization, & Memory written by Emily Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Little attention is given in psychiatry to the temporal aspect of psychiatric illness. My thesis argues that without the ability to mentally time travel (MTT), to direct your future self and reflect on your past self in the way that humans are designed to, mental distress follows shortly after. This thesis explores how being stuck in time, where one feels trapped in a traumatic memory repertoire, a set of circumstances, or a set of beliefs, prevents an individual from being able to MTT. It argues that this feeling of being stuck in time can result from oppressive social structures, psychological conditions, and a combination of both. This thesis thus aims to flesh out the connections between madness, marginalization, and MTT. My thesis begins by unpacking the psychological threats which can occur to one's ability to MTT. I show that whilst MTT is currently theorized as an individualistic and rationalistic capacity; trauma shows us that there are more cognitive, affective, and relational elements than the current literature acknowledges. After exploring this figurative sense of being stuck in time, in which one cannot psychologically move past certain experiences, the following two chapters explore the social sense of being stuck in time through the cases of racialization and dementia patients. Given the relational nature of the self - that the self is constituted by our relations with others - there are degrees to which individuals can be hindered in the task of developing a coherent sense of self. Indeed, when one is socially or mentally struggling, people can be 'held in place' by others to preserve a sense of self. This holding can be supportive, but one central concern in my thesis is that it can also be oppressive. My thesis ends by showing that whilst feeling stuck in time can cause several personal and relational harms, these harms can be overcome by our connections with others in our social circle through interpersonal trust"--