@ARTICLE{Serkowska_Hanna_“I_2023,
 author={Serkowska, Hanna},
 number={No 4 (379)},
 journal={Ruch Literacki},
 pages={497-513},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Polska Akademia Nauk Oddział w Krakowie Komisja Historycznoliteracka},
 publisher={Uniwersytet Jagielloński Wydział Polonistyki},
 abstract={The subject of depression, often driven by personal experience, has lately become very prominent in the public sphere. Olga Hund's Psy ras drobnych [Dogs of Smaller Breeds] (2018) is a novel about depression, though unlike many European films and novels, it does not blame the condition on the individual – the main character of the story. Her book is memoir of sorts, a series of dramatic scenes from a mental ward of the Kobierzyn Psychiatric Hospital in Cracow. The whole is written, we may assume, to provoke out-rage: it is an accusation of the health care system, yet the blame for the mental condition rather than the wrong therapy, is put squarely on the structures and socio-economic mechanisms of the neoliberal society. The book makes two points. First, the psychiatric hospital by its very nature is a total institution that’s totally indispensable; and second – as seen from the interface of the ‘normal’ people and the mental patients – the social, economic and ideological factors have a significant role in generating suffering and the mental illness itself.},
 type={Artykuł},
 title={“I don’t give that hulk a chance”: Depression: an illness or disillusionment?},
 URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/130835/2023-04-RL-04.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/rl.2023.148300},
 keywords={health humanities, depression, mental health, disenchantment, psychiatric clinic, Olga Hund (b. 1986)},
}