Pathology and the Postmodern : Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience.

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In this wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between mental distress and social constructionism, eminent cross-disciplinary scholars rework modernist assumptions about the phenomenology of mental dysfunction. The authors address how specific cultural, economic and historical forces converge...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fee, Dwight
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : SAGE Publications, 1999.
Colección:Inquiries in social construction series.
Temas:
Mental illness > Social aspects.
Postmodernism.
Psychology, Pathological.
Social psychiatry.
Psychopathology
Community Psychiatry
Maladies mentales > Aspect social.
Postmodernisme.
Psychopathologie.
Psychiatrie sociale.
Mental illness > Social aspects
Postmodernism
Psychology, Pathological
Social psychiatry
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In this wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between mental distress and social constructionism, eminent cross-disciplinary scholars rework modernist assumptions about the phenomenology of mental dysfunction. The authors address how specific cultural, economic and historical forces converge in contemporary psychiatry and psychology, how new syndromes, subjectivities and identities are being constructed and deconstructed in technological, culturally mediated and hyper-reflexive contexts, and what new critiques and understandings of 'pathology' seem viable, given these still emerging sce.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:9781848608894
1848608896

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