Catatonic Cocoon

Rosiel Elwyn

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Catatonic Cocoon

Rosiel Elwyn

International Mad Studies Journal, Vol.2(1), pp.e1-e11

2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.58544/imsj.v2i1.7052

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Abstract

Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)

Clinical and health psychology

Psychosis

Catatonia

Lived Experience

Trauma

Post Traumatic Stress

Dissociation

Iatrogenic Harm

Suicide

Eating Disorders

Mad Studies

Schizophrenia

Thompson Institute Special Collection

General mental health and psychology

This poetic mediation explores catatonia from a personal perspective and sensory geography, including its interrelationships with trauma survival, threat responses, and the use of catatonia to create a safe harbor within the self. This creation of a world within the self allows a shutting down and shutting out of broader realities to find healing space when no safety can be found, and a recuperation in self-sanctuary. The catatonic cocoon is untethered from time and the expectations of movement, sound, speech, and performance. By re-positioning catatonic experiences as having emotional and physical functions outside of biomedical conceptualisations of neuropsychiatric disorder, these experiences can be explored as both incidents of vulnerability and as powerful survival strategies, at times subconscious and at times agentic. Approaching this concept with curiosity provides the opportunity to consider how to connect with a person experiencing catatonia, and insights into its timeline, meanings and purpose.

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Title: Catatonic Cocoon
Authors: Rosiel Elwyn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Thompson Institute
Publication details: International Mad Studies Journal, Vol.2(1), pp.e1-e11
Publisher: International Mad Studies Journal
Date published: 2024
DOI: 10.58544/imsj.v2i1.7052
Copyright note: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Authors retain copyright and grant IMSJ right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-NC ND) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in IMSJ.
Organisation Unit: Thompson Institute; School of Law and Society
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991048697502621
Output Type: Journal article

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