Capstones
Graduation Date
Fall 12-18-2020
Grading Professor
Fred Kaufman
Subject Concentration
Arts & Culture
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Abstract
Schizophrenia, which includes a combination of persistent and overwhelming hallucinations and delusions, emerges in men between the ages of 18 and 25. After I experienced a string of strange auditory hallucinations as a 19-year-old, I begged to fast-forward past the threshold of early adulthood to learn my fate: whether I was among the one-time voice-hearers, the people with a long-term mental illness or the conspiracy-peddling catastrophizers. I came to understand that those distinctions are blurrier than we’d like to admit. We are all connected through a shared pathology, falling in some liminal space between sanity and madness.
http://theinsanityspectrum.tilda.ws/
Recommended Citation
Gallagher, Nicholas, "The Insanity Spectrum" (2020). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gj_etds/442
Using Datawrapper, I generated an interactive map with this dataset to illustrate the varying availability of psychiatric beds across the fifty states per 100,000 residents. Data via the Pew Charitable Trusts. An interactive version can be found here: https://www.datawrapper.de/_/ZVscA/
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Using Datawrapper, I generated a chart with this dataset to illustrate the prevalence of auditory hallucinations in children, adolescents, adults and elderly populations. Data via Psychological Medicine meta-study.