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Crip Screens
Countering Psychiatric Media Technologies
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Olivia Banner
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English
Published/Copyright:
2025
About this book
In Crip Screens, Olivia Banner provides a wide-ranging and ongoing history of Black, feminist-of-color, and crip resistance to psychiatry’s incorporation of hegemonic media technologies into treatment and research. Banner shows how institutions use documentary films, data visualization, network graphs, therapy chatbots, virtual patient training programs, and pharmaceutical advertising to pathologize certain people as “deviant” and “mentally ill.” Those people so categorized have used media technologies toward alternative visions of care. Examining insurgent media and technology efforts in the 1960s and 1970s, Banner shows how women and communities of color worked to wrest away from psychiatry its hold over representing mental distress and pathological categorization. These efforts and innovations, she argues, were distinct from what is now accepted as the antipsychiatry movement. In so doing, Banner recovers a lost history of disability politics—what she calls crip screens—that refused psychiatry’s use of cultural productions toward its carceral and subjugating designs.
Reviews
“Drawing from a radical methodology and generous readings of a wealth of archival material, Crip Screens is a highly original work that traces a dual history of oppression and resistance to the biopolitical projects of normalization and pathologization in psychiatry. This definitive book will remain deeply important to the continued conversations around computer power, mediated medicine, and daily life within surveillance capitalism.”
-- Hannah Zeavin, author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy
-- Hannah Zeavin, author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 14, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781478061397
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781478061397
Keywords for this book
Crip studies; American studies; media studies; cultural studies; critical data culture studies; Crip genealogy; network science; feminist-of-color disability analytic; Automation; psychiatry and computers; psychiatry and videotape; youth media; psychiatric ways of screening; Lincoln Hospital Mental Health Services Center; feminist-of-color information activism; Civil Rights Compromise; Harlem; documentary; Black-produced independent media; Mental Health Film Board; Lincoln Collective; Health Revolutionary Unity Movement; Young Lords; Standardized patient; simulated psychiatric patient; William Greaves; Third World Newsreel; Carolyn Johnson; American Psychiatric Association
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
