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Hofstra, Jorie Lindsey Florence. Narrating the neurally-disrupted self: brain, self, and society in the attribution of dysregulated anger. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-hp5y-bc39

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TitleNarrating the neurally-disrupted self: brain, self, and society in the attribution of dysregulated anger
NameHofstra, Jorie Lindsey Florence (author); Horwitz, Allan V. (chair); Rutgers University; School of Graduate Studies
Date Created2020
Other Date2020-05 (degree)
SubjectBrain, Sociology
Extent1 online resource (vii, 169 pages) : illustrations
DescriptionWe live in a time of all things “neuro-.” Images of PET-scanned brains grace the pages of popular magazines, terms like neuroplasticity are in common use, and theories of the brain’s central role in everything from relationship difficulties to political identity to crime rates abound. Yet even as neuroscience’s jurisdiction over different facets of our lives expands, we know very little about how we actually relate to our brains in the context of the neurotechnologies and neurodiscourses all around us. To address this, I focused on people who have experienced a sudden change to their brain, followed by distressing emotional changes: a situation in which questions of who one is in relation to one’s brain are forced to the foreground. Through in-depth interviews, a diary study, and analysis of published memoirs, I investigated how people construct a sense of the relationships between brains, bodies, selves, and others in the ways they talk about their brain injury and the emotional disruptions that have followed it. The research supports the hypothesis that brain injury and post-brain-injury anger represent threats to selfhood in our present cultural climate, but it also shows that people have a diverse set of tools for navigating these threats in ways that can protect their own and others’ view of them. Moreover, some people’s ways of asserting their personhood in the midst of this crisis point the way, I argue, toward a new cultural ethos of interdependence as an alternative to the neoliberal imperatives of rationality and self-management encoded in dominant neurodiscourses.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-hp5y-bc39
LanguageEnglish
CollectionSchool of Graduate Studies Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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