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Approaching Addiction: A Brief History
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 164–182.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Steve Sussman; Erika Wright Abstract This essay seeks to illuminate the shifting definitions of addiction over time by providing a brief, anecdotal history of addiction as well as a review of how it has been conceptualized by the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM classification system. While...
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Ghost Meat: Horror, Trauma, and Visceral History
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 66–80.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., on which she has no ethical claim but which has become the riveting basis of her self-knowledge. Horror, as an emotional response, has a complicated relationship with trauma as a psychiatric entity. In the fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ( DSM-IV , 1994), a diagnosis...
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English Language Notes (2022) 60 (1): 1–15.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of addiction. They also reveal the continuing challenges of defining a concept that so many readers and writers imagine they already know. As Sussman and Wright illuminate in detail, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ), which helps physicians diagnose and categorize illnesses...
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Transgender Nation: Crossing Borders and Queering Space in Transamerica
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (2): 133–139.
Published: 01 September 2007
... is telling insofar as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, better known as the DSM-IV, identifies transsexuality as a mental illness. Bree demonstrates the overlap of transexuality and transgendered identity w hile exhibiting her stoicism and self-acceptance in the face o f trem endous...
