Andrew Field

cartoonist and librarian

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

I wonder if there is a way to talk about the suffering of madness without idealizing it. To talk about the tragic dimension of psychosis as a window to something, but without romanticizing.

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

Here’s part of a cartoon about dissociation and the self sense. The rest can be read on IG!

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

warning, warning! Poem published! https://t.co/r0qT4Kr28h

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

I wrote a short blog post arguing that psychosis is a form of rationalism because it involve making inferences. Only the inferences are faulty.

https://t.co/I0dXYwyapY

[Psychoanalytic Inquiry @psyainquiry]

Madness Revisited: A 360 Degree View
Prologue by Daniel Posner, M.D.
https://t.co/wkVYmh3vmK

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

Here’s a cartoon about psychosis and worldlessness.

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

For anyone interested in psychosis, comics, and phenomenology, I finished an autobiographic comic about living with schizoaffective disorder. There need to be more representations of schizophrenia-spectrum illnesses. It can be read in its entirety here:

https://t.co/rLuGRcgfPN

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

@user33906969 [taking tweet too seriously] Louis Sass says schizophrenia involves an ontological difference, and I know exactly what he means.

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

I'm exploring my recovery from my first episode of psychosis in 2010, and the beginning of a second episode around 2014. Here are some panels. More can be read on IG https://t.co/W9oHO7GXnH

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

Finished this guy today.

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

Here are a few panels of a cartoon about thought broadcasting. More can be read here: https://t.co/rfXwvmaiVZ

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

Here's a few panels from a cartoon about apophany, something that is not discussed enough in the literature on schizophrenia-spectrum illnesses. For the whole cartoon, check out:

https://t.co/W9oHO7GXnH

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https://t.co/eba5sDmtvF

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

I wonder if, in the public imagination, we conflate schizophrenia-spectrum illnesses with psychopathy, when they are distinct.

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

Here's a cartoon about Nick Reiner and psychosis. We should use this as an opportunity to learn about what psychosis means. The rest of the cartoon is here:

https://t.co/W9oHO7GXnH

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https://t.co/Bp1T2ePmXA

[Sight and Sound magazine @SightSoundmag]

Across a filmmaking career spanning more than five decades, Frederick Wiseman – who has died at 96 – refined a uniquely austere, quietly radical form of documentary cinema

https://t.co/n9MKbw4FdE

[Andrew Field @AndrewField37]

I had a longer comic published today with Crucial Comix! Yay! It’s about living with a schizoaffective disorder. It can be read here: https://t.co/ejU50x0Xuw