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able-bodied. See tab (temporarily ablebodied ) ableism, and concept of post-personhood, 278–79, 281 Aboriginal peoples, colonization of, 204–205; and creation of First Nations college, 217–18; and importance of education, 220–21, 222; as problematic for students, 217–18, 222, 223–24. See also Saskatchewan Indian Federated College Aboriginal post-secondary students: and curriculum, 220–21, 222; family problems of, 220, 221, 222–23; financial/ housing support for, 221, 223; financial problems of, 220, 221, 223; as graduates/employees, 219; narratives of, 219–24; and need for community, 222, 223; withdrawal of, 218, 220, 225. See also Saskatchewan Indian Federated College academic workplace: anti-Semitism in, 228; and difficulty of asking for help, 177, 178; exhausting pace of, 176–77; and fear of cognitive impairment, 177; as not accepting of illness/disability, 175–79; and obsession with knowledge /intellect, 288, 289–90, 291–92. See also Saskatchewan Indian Federated College Aeschylus, 89, 90 aesthetic function of narrative, 6, 7, 25–31, 74–75, 301 age and aging. See elders agencing, concept of (Chambers), 149, 151–52, 153, 157 agoraphobia, 49, 205–206, 247–54; and class, 251–52; as discussed in DSM, 252–54; as distinguished from shell shock, 251; first clinical account of, 247–48; and gender, 249–51; and race, 251–52; and urban life/social change, 248–49 aids, 53–60, 206; drug treatments for, 54, 57–59, 60nn8–9; early crisis years of, 26–27, 53–54, 57–58; and environment , 125; and Freudian theory of latency/trauma, 54; and narrative of shared experience, 53–57; and political activism, 57–58; possible end of, 59–60; as state of being “between two deaths,” 55, 58; and testimonial/ act of bearing witness, 53–54 Alzheimer’s disease, 177, 277 American Psychiatric Association, 99, 118, 229, 240, 252. See also DSM amplification, concept of (Chambers/ Couser), 110, 149, 151, 153, 287 anorexia, 27; and mind/body opposition , 61–62, 66–67; and paradox of 349 Index self-control/self-destruction, 63–64; as protest against patriarchy, 63; and testimonial/act of bearing witness, 62, 64, 68; as woman’s disease, 62–63, 64–65. See also Petite “anti-psychiatry” movement, 238, 240, 242–43. See also mental illness; psychiatry anti-Semitism: in academic workplace, 228; as experienced by Freud, 230– 31; and Jewish identity, 227, 228, 231–33; prairie landscape, as symbol of, 232–33; in rural Canada, 227, 231–32; serial autobiography, as narrative of, 205, 227, 228–29, 230, 231–33; and sexism, 228, 230, 231–32, 233; as social trauma, 229–30 anti-Semitism narrative: confessional/testimonial functions of, 205; and Jewish identity, 227, 228, 231–33; and post-traumatic stress disorder, 229– 30; prairie imagery in, 232–33; serial autobiography as, 205, 227, 228–29, 230, 231–33; unresolved ending of, 233 Aristotle, 89–90 assemblage, concept of (Deleuze/Guattari ), 153, 155, 156, 157 atomic bombing of Japan, trauma caused by: as delayed reaction, 99, 116; and memory/suppression of memory, 29, 98–99, 100, 102, 104; and mental confusion, 97, 99, 102, 104; and reliving of catastrophic events, 97, 102– 103; as shared by entire generation, 29, 99. See also Nagasaki; Rhapsody in August Autobiographical Study, An (Freud), 230– 31 autobiography, 80–81; confessional/testimonial functions of, 205, 234–35; and trauma recovery process, 117. See also disabled, autobiographies by autobiography, serial, 205, 227–35; and anti-Semitism/Jewish identity, 205, 227, 228–29, 230, 231–33; and incest, 205, 227, 228–29, 233–35 autopathography, 25, 123, 171, 173. See also illness narrative; pathography Bauby, Jean-Dominique, 6, 277–78, 280, 285 Baudrillard, Jean, 239–40, 241 Bearing, Vivian. See Wit (Edson), protagonist of Belchertown State School (Massachusetts ), 83, 86 Bell Jar, The (Plath), 46 Beutler, Maja, 27, 71, 73, 74–78 Beyond Don’t: Dreaming Past the Dark (Danica), 227, 229, 234–35 Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud), 95 biomedical discourse. See medical discourse Blackbridge, Persimmon, 110, 149–57. See also Sunnybrook: A True Story with Lies Bluebond-Langner, Myra, 267, 270 “borderline personality disorder,” 26, 46, 48 Borrowed Time (Monette), 27, 53, 54, 56; as quest narrative, 57–58 breast cancer, 113–14, 127 Brisac, Geneviève, 27, 62–63, 67–68, 110. See also anorexia; Petite Canada/Quebec Pension Plan, disability benefits from, 210, 211, 212, 214, 215 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), 9, 11–12 cancer, 18, 27, 71, 72–73 cancer, breast, 113–14, 127 cancer, ovarian. See Wit cancer narrative, 71–78...
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