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Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane is a staple of the Batman universe, evolving into a franchise comprised of comic books, graphic novels, video games, films, television series and more. The Arkham franchise, supposedly light-weight entertainment, has tackled weighty issues in contemporary psychiatry. Its plotlines reference clinical and ethical controversies that perplex even the most up-to-date professionals. The 25 essays in this collection explore the significance of Arkham's sinister psychiatrists, murderous mental patients, and unethical geneticists. It invites debates about the criminalization of the mentally ill, mental patients who move from defunct state hospitals into expanding prisons, madness versus badness, sociopathy versus psychosis, the "insanity defense" and more. Invoking literary figures from Lovecraft to Poe to Caligari, the 25 essays in this collection are a broad-ranging and thorough assessment of the franchise and its relationship to contemporary psychiatry.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Jason W. Ellis
Preface by Sharon Packer, M.D.
Introduction: Why Arkham, Why Now? (Sharon Packer, M.D.)
Section I: Clinical Psychiatric Controversies
The Differential Diagnosis of Elizabeth Arkham (Elyse D. Weiner, M.D.)
ECT in Arkham Asylum: Pacification, Assassination and Electrocution (Timothy W. Kneeland)
Hallucinations and Psychedelics in Arkham (Matthew Brown, D.O., and Fernando Espí Forcén, M.D.)
Section II: Forensic Psychiatric Controversies I'm [Virtual] Batman: Violence and Video Games (Ryan C.W. Hall, M.D., and Susan Hatters Friedman, M.D.)
Deadly and Dysfunctional Family Dynamics: When Fiction Mirrors Fact
(Susan Hatters Friedman, M.D., and Ryan C.W. Hall, M.D.)
Murderous Minds, Arkham Villains and Real (Not Reel) Life
Movie Massacres (Sharon Packer, M.D.)
Section III: Medical-Ethical Controversies Anti-Psychiatry and the Arkham Asylum (Fernando Espí Forcén, M.D.)
Harley Quinn and the Joker: Pitfalls of Doctor-Patient Romances (Sharon Packer, M.D.)
Unethical Experiments in Arkham and Elsewhere (Sharon Packer, M.D.)
Section IV: Big Screen Parallels Arkham's Sinister Psychiatrists and the Continuum with Caligari (Sharon Packer, M.D.)
Haunted by Madness: Horror and the Supernatural in Arkham Asylum
(Michael Markus)
Breaking Out: The Escaped Mental Patient in the Batman Universe (Jeffrey Bullins)
The Suicide Squad: From Bad to Good and Back Again (Jaq Greenspon and Rasa Greenspon)
Section V: Small Screen Parallels Animated Arkham: Television and Children's Perceptions of Psychiatric Treatment (Kristi Rowan Humphreys)
The Fine Line Between Sanity and Madness in Star Trek's "Whom Gods Destroy" and Arkham Asylum: A Serious Place on Serious Earth
(Darren Harris-Fain and Eric J. Sterling)
Section VI: Video Screen Parallels If Walls Could Scream: Embedded Narratives and Mazes of Madness in the Virtual Space of Arkham (Asylum Shawn Edrei)
Excavating Arkham: The Mental Asylum as Horrible Homecoming
(Brenda S. Gardenour Walter)
Section VII: Literary and Artistic Influences
Bizarro Arkham, Bizarro World: The Looking Glass Looks Back
(Aaron Barlow)
The Neo-Expressionist Agony of Arkham Asylum
(Rosa JH Berland)
Surrealism's Influence on Arkham and Psychiatry's Influence on Surrealism (Sharon Packer, M.D.)
Poe's Place in Arkham Asylum: Precursors and Parallels (Caleb Puckett)
H.P. Lovecraft, Literary Heritage and Batman: Arkham Asylum (Eric Sandberg)
Section VIII: Mythic and Religious Parallels Evil Clowns and Acrobats: The Joker and Harley Quinn (Adam W. Darlage)
Matricide and Myth (Daniel R. Fredrick)
Appendix: Unethical Experiments in Modern Genetics Research
About the Contributors
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
