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What Does Disney do to Mental Health?

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Exploring the dangers of Disney’s take on poverty, mental health, and relationships.
With backgrounds in medical humanities and school therapy and social work, Jenifer Fisher and Nikki York describe a recent project analysing Disney films in terms of how they depict poverty and mental illness and what solutions they present to these problems (almost always: get yourself rescued by one perfect relationship). Their analysis found a strong, and realistic, correlation between characters' adverse childhood experiences (ACE) score (a measure of neglect and abuse) and the incidence of poverty and mental illness in their portrayals. Our conversation explores concepts of the 'self-made man' and the 'virtuous poor', the reduction in emphasis on poverty in films since 1937, and the dangerous consequences of presenting singular relationships as solutions to mental health problems.

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Textual Therapies
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Jenifer Fisher
Nikki York
Emily Troscianko
Keywords
ace score
disney
health humanities
mental health
poverty
relationships
social work
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 12/09/2018
Duration: 00:32:41

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