Abstract

Gaston Franssen is Assistant Professor of Literary Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His current research topics include contemporary Dutch and American-English literature, reception aesthetics, bestseller authorship, literary celebrity, literary fandom, performance poetry, discourses of subjectivity, and therapeutic fiction and the narrative self in mental healthcare. At present, he is working on the multi-disciplinary research project Management of the self: A humanities approach to self-management in psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.Thomas Fuchs is a psychiatrist and philosopher, and the Karl...