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Record W4407238362 · doi:10.5430/wjel.v15n4p20

Repression of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Through Graphic Narrative in Ian William’s The Bad Doctor (2014)

2025· article· en· W4407238362 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
L. Luffina, J. Amalaveenus

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Journal of English Language · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicComics and Graphic Narratives
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativePsychological repressionPsychoanalysisPsychiatryPsychologyArtLiteratureGeneticsBiology

Abstract

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Comics is a sequential art that appeals to a diversified audience, a medium of reflection on culture, society, and history. Graphic literature is a discourse of dynamic interaction of graphics in literature, including literary comics, graphic novels, sequential art, juxtaposed images, and other dimensions of visual and printed images. A Graphic novel is the collaborative medium of the interaction of word and image, visual and verbal imagery to create numerous meanings and multiple interpretations. The term Graphic medicine was coined by Ian Williams who is a doctor, comic artist, and writer; He defined Graphic Medicine as the intersection of the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare. Graphic medicine analyzes and interprets the medium of comics which serves as an innovative platform for disturbing, risky, and taboo ideas of illness. Ian Williams’s graphic novel The Bad Doctor (2014) is a verbal and visual illustration of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The protagonist Ian a general practitioner tries to cope with his OCD, his obsessions are comically and satirically represented through the artistic medium of graphic narrative and iconography of illness. Graphic Narrative of psychological illness like OCD by the sufferer of the illness gives a whole new perspective on the experience of psychological illness. Graphic narrative and iconographic representation of illness break down the traditional stereotypes of illness and give voice to the muted patient whose stories are unheard.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.021

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0050.011
Scholarly communication0.0050.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.255
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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