Table of 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
