Abstract
ABSTRACT Graphic medicine narrates illness experiences, criticises the inhumane and exploitative designs of biomedicine and partakes in health humanities’ attempt to humanise medicine. Psychiatry, as a treatment speciality, has been criticised for its reliance on incarceration, the conspicuous hierarchy in its institutional structures and its operation of power since time immemorial. These restrictive devices demote the mentally ill to a subhuman category of individuals. Aurelien Ducoudray and Jeff Pourquie’s graphic narrative, The Third Population (2020) features institutional psychotherapy which is a compassionate model of treating the mentally distressed through a human-centred, space-oriented and communitarian approach as practiced in the French psychiatric institution, La Chesnaie clinic. The work recounts the guiding philosophies of this communitarian model of psychiatry and simultaneously engages with the concept of spatiality in comics and in a psychiatric institution. Drawing theoretical insights from Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman, this research article analyzes the graphic narrative on how La Chesnaie model of institutional psychotherapy counters the incarcerative and hierarchical models of treatment systems through the reconfiguration of spatial logic and the unique ways in which comics capture such a reinvented spatial dimension.
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