Gaslighting Syllabus

Syllabus for the Ph.D. seminar: Syllabus SVS7101 Epistemology and Social Work University of Ottawa, Fall 2019

2019

This paper proposes a victim-centered account of microaggressions within the context of clinical medicine. As an alternative to Sue's tripartite taxonomy of microaggressions, a new framework for understanding microaggressions is proposed: epistemic microaggressions, emotional microaggressions, and self-identity microaggressions, which result, respectively in epistemic, emotional, and existential harm. In understanding microaggressions anew within the context of health and health care, we argue that microaggressions can undermine physician-patient relationships, preclude relationships of trust, and therefore compromise the kind and quality of care that patients deserve. Ultimately, by focusing on the experiences of victims of microaggressions, the paper demonstrates how harmful microaggressions in clinical medical contexts can be, and thus provides strong reasons why health care providers ought to know about them and actively work to avoid committing them.

Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, 2018

This is the Introduction to volume 8 of Word and Text. The volume is entitled 'Encounters between Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies' and is edited by Arleen Ionescu and Anne-Marie Callus. The volume contains the following contributions: Encounters between Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies: Introduction Arleen Ionescu and Anne-Marie Callus Section 1: Autoethnographies Voicing Experiences of Disability through the Lens of Trauma Studies - Shahd Alshammari: On Being Woman, Other and Disabled: Navigating Identity - Douglas E. Kidd: Neurodivergence Enminded/Embodied: Living with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury - Ann Millett-Gallant: Mind and Body Transformations through Visual Art - Sarah Redikopp: Borderline Knowing: (Re)Valuing Borderline Personality Disorder as (Counter) Knowledge Section 2: Fictional Narratives Featuring Encounters between Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies in Films and in Literature - Sasha Dilan Krugman: Reclamation of the Disabled Body: A Textual Analysis of Browning’s Freaks (1932) vs Modern Media’s Sideshow Generation - Katherine E. Smith: ‘It’s a Pity and a Sin’: Images of Disability, Trauma and Subverted Power in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast - Josephine Barnett: Setting the Stage for Bridging Disability and Trauma Studies: Reclaiming Narrative in Amy and the Orphans - Tracy Anne Travis: To Leap First Down into The Trench: Tristram Shandy’s Critique of The Wounds of War Section 3: Biographic Accounts at the Intersection between Disability Studies and Critical Trauma Studies - Kurt Borg: Narrating Disability, Trauma and Pain: The Doing and Undoing of the Self in Language - Nontsasa Nako: Invincible yet Vulnerable: Race, Disability and Trauma in South Africa after Oscar Pistorius - Sharon D. Raynor: The Double Consciousness and Disability Dilemma: Trauma and the African American Veteran Section 4: Review Articles - Anne-Marie Callus: Reading Disability in Literature and in Film - Arleen Ionescu and Rongrong Qian: On Public Representation of Trauma

book review about Martha Nussbaum's new book on anger and forgiveness

Teaching the Sociology Of Peace, War And Social …

The Monist, 2019

This paper develops a notion of manipulative gaslighting, which is designed to capture something not captured by epistemic gaslighting, namely the intent to undermine women by denying their testimony about harms done to them by men. Manipulative gaslighting, I propose, consists in getting someone to doubt her testimony by challenging its credibility using two tactics: “sidestepping” (dodging evidence that supports her testimony) and “displacing” (attributing to her cognitive or characterological defects). I explain how manipulative gaslighting is distinct from (mere) reasonable disagreement, with which it is sometimes confused. I also argue for three further claims: that manipulative gaslighting is a method of enacting misogyny, that it is often a collective phenomenon, and, as collective, qualifies as a mode of psychological oppression.

Mission Statement (1) My goal with the cognitive certificate is to build enough professional experience that I can explore the ideas of art therapy, drama therapy, exposure therapy, etc. through Cognitive Assistive Technology and apply in a constructive manner for the rehabilitation of people with cognitive disabilities. My approach is heavily influenced from a page from Feminist Theory in its prioritization of male rehabilitation and women’s empowerment from problematic religious and other stigmatizing social structures. While the technologies on the market that have a highly Cognitive Assistive basis are plentiful, the majority lack modeling aspects for social, economic and developmental modeling. Games often focus on individual gain, war and violence, sexual objectification of women, lack of minorities, homophobic themes, competitive sports fixation, etc. It is absolutely arguable whether or not these themes are inherently damaging, however modeling them exclusively--often which happens in our sexually stratified social environments--is a likely culprit in biased and delusional thinking. Ultimately the creation of medical and psychosocial adjusted Cognitive Assistive Technologies--away from the traditional, crystallized and the prescriptivism of rote memory written and verbal literature based systems--will offer universality, adaptiveness to learning styles, be more ergonomic, built-in accommodations, and offer a larger variety of themes for personal growth and training. Various psychological theories can be formatted into virtual simulations of various levels of technological immersion as well as can be done for vocational assessments and trainings. In conjunction with referral from various demographic outreach organizations, integration into state rehabilitation agencies and other publicly funded vocational programs and universities, Cognitive Assistive Technology can be a regular training mechanism for rehabilitation in the vocational sense as well as for assessment and therapeutics.