“It's Upon Us to Widen That Lens”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tourniquet

Why should we draw on the field of disability studies to envision, treat, and talk about BPD? In this second and final part of my interview with Professor Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality, we explore this question and others, including the connection between BPD and sexuality, why we might diagnose fictional characters with BPD, and the form of her memoir, which “sutured together many types of discourse (medical texts, self-help books, fairy-tale, personal email, autobiographical memory).”

 

Merri Lisa Johnson, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet

Merri Lisa Johnson (editor), Jane Sexes It Up: True Confessions of Feminist Desire

Merri Lisa Jonson and Robert McRuer. "Cripistemologies: Introduction."  

Merri Lisa Johnson and Robert McRuer, “Cripistemologies Now (More Than Ever!)”

Alyson E. Blanchard et al., “Testing the Hot-Crazy Matrix: Borderline Personality Traits in Attractive Women and Wealthy Low Attractive Men Are Relatively Favoured by the Opposite Sex”

Baby Reindeer TV series

Beyoncé, “Hold Up”

Anne Boyer, The Undying

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl

Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”

Jonathan Metzel, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

Sarah Redikopp, “Interrogating Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Disorder Through a Feminist Psychiatric Disability Theory Framework”

Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation