Definition of autopathography in US English:
autopathography
nounPlural autopathographiesˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfēˌôdōpəˈTHäɡrəfē
An autobiography dealing primarily with the influence of a disease, disability, or psychological disorder on the author's life.
Example sentencesExamples
- Gay and straight, conventional and decadent, scientist and journalist, celebrity and commoner - the past decade has seen a flood of autopathography.
- Her autopathography, ‘A Clean Breast of It,’ answers tough questions about cancer while transcending the standard ‘survivor story’.
- Her most recent publication was an autopathography appearing in the August 2004 edition of Redbook magazine.
- The autopathography of Paul Schreber who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia was published in 1903.
- By offering readings of a broad range of narratives within the parameters of autobiography and these four illnesses, this critical text functions well as an introduction to the study of contemporary autopathography.
- It is an autopathography which focuses on the lessons learned primarily by the protagonist, his wife, children and family.
- But despite this book's being dismissed rather peevishly as "autopathography" by the New York Times, it is not self-indulgent.
- Extending ‘pathography,’ the term coined by Joyce Carol Oates for reductive biographies, this is autopathography - by no means the same as confession.
- The genre of the illness narrative (pathography and autopathography) is flourishing these days.
Origin
Blend of autobiography and pathography.