{"id":260,"date":"2017-01-31T09:45:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T09:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?p=260"},"modified":"2017-01-31T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T09:45:04","slug":"schizophrenia-the-modern-day-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/01\/31\/schizophrenia-the-modern-day-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"Schizophrenia: The Modern Day Demon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I&#8217;ve enjoyed what we&#8217;ve read of\u00a0<em>A Head Full of Ghosts\u00a0<\/em>so far, I&#8217;ve \u00a0found myself most interested by the title and what it implies. In both\u00a0<em>The Exorcist<\/em> and\u00a0<em>A Head Full of Ghosts<\/em>, the possibility that the &#8220;possessed&#8221; character simply has schizophrenia is brought up. That got me thinking about schizophrenia itself, more specifically how we conceptualize it and how it relates to the idea of &#8220;possession.&#8221; \u00a0If we define possession as an entity taking control or root in a host body of another, separate entity, then\u00a0could we conceivably call schizophrenia a type of possession?<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/image\/5117230-1x1-700x700.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/allinthemind\/invisible-intruders-e28093-the-voices-in-my-head\/5117208\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.abc.net.au\/radionational\/programs\/allinthemind\/invisible-intruders-e28093-the-voices-in-my-head\/5117208<\/a>, uploaded December 1, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tremblay&#8217;s title, taken from a Bad Religion song, creates the imagery of an individual whose head is filled with identities not their own, of someone who is &#8220;carrying&#8221; separate individuals within themselves. It feels obvious to me that what people in past centuries called &#8220;demonic possession&#8221; was in reality something along the lines of schizophrenia, but if there can be modern &#8220;technological ghosts&#8221; (along the lines of Bob Ross), is there a &#8220;modern technological&#8221; equivalent of possession? If someone is hearing and being influenced by voices locked within their own head, is that any less terrifying or uncanny than some supernatural force entering their body? I think by and large schizophrenia gets categorized as simply &#8220;hearing voices&#8221; or &#8220;seeing things&#8221;, and to do so is to drastically take away from what is actually occurring, and how frightening it can be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I&#8217;ve enjoyed what we&#8217;ve read of\u00a0A Head Full of Ghosts\u00a0so far, I&#8217;ve \u00a0found myself most interested by the title and what it implies. In both\u00a0The Exorcist and\u00a0A Head Full of Ghosts, the possibility that the &#8220;possessed&#8221; character simply has schizophrenia is brought up. That got me thinking about schizophrenia itself, more specifically how &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/2017\/01\/31\/schizophrenia-the-modern-day-demon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Schizophrenia: The Modern Day Demon?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}