{"title":"Examining A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education","authors":"Sarah Boon","doi":"10.1002/dhe.31884","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mental health is a somewhat taboo topic in academia. As Katie Rose Guest Pryal, a bipolar and autistic author and academic, writes in her new book <i>A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education</i> (available now from University Press of Kansas), “Based on the logic of academia, if my brain is wrong, then everything about me is wrong.” She argues that mental disability is stigmatized in higher education and pushed into the shadows and that the key solution to the mental disability crisis — Pryal's preferred terminology — is to increase accessibility overall rather than just provide accommodations for faculty and students. This can decrease the stigma around their illnesses.</p>","PeriodicalId":100378,"journal":{"name":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","volume":"30 6","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Disability Compliance for Higher Education","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dhe.31884","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mental health is a somewhat taboo topic in academia. As Katie Rose Guest Pryal, a bipolar and autistic author and academic, writes in her new book A Light in the Tower: A New Reckoning with Mental Health in Higher Education (available now from University Press of Kansas), “Based on the logic of academia, if my brain is wrong, then everything about me is wrong.” She argues that mental disability is stigmatized in higher education and pushed into the shadows and that the key solution to the mental disability crisis — Pryal's preferred terminology — is to increase accessibility overall rather than just provide accommodations for faculty and students. This can decrease the stigma around their illnesses.
心理健康在学术界是一个有点忌讳的话题。正如双相情感障碍和自闭症的作家兼学者凯蒂·罗斯·盖斯特·普里亚尔（Katie Rose Guest Pryal）在她的新书《塔中之光：对高等教育中心理健康的新评估》（堪萨斯大学出版社出版）中所写的那样，“基于学术界的逻辑，如果我的大脑是错的，那么关于我的一切都是错的。”她认为，精神残疾在高等教育中被污名化，并被推到阴影中，解决精神残疾危机的关键方法——Pryal喜欢的术语——是增加整体的可及性，而不仅仅是为教师和学生提供便利。这可以减少他们对疾病的耻辱感。
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