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Pathology and the Postmodern : Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
SAGE Publications,
1999.
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| Colección: | Inquiries in social construction series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Part I
- Introduction
- Chapter 1
- The Broken Dialogue: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience
- Part II
- Psychiatric Discourse and Mental Life in Postmodern Spaces
- Chapter 2
- Escape from Insanity: 'Mental Disorder' in the Postmodern Moment
- Chapter 3
- Performing Methods: History, Hysteria, and the New Science of Psychiatry
- Chapter 4
- The Project of Pathology: Reflexivity and Depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation
- Part III
- Pathology and Selfhood: New and Contested Subjectivities.
- Chapter 5
- The Self: Transfiguration by Technology
- Chapter 6
- Modernists at Heart? Postmodern Artistic 'Breakdowns' and the Question of Identity
- Chapter 7
- A Dangerous Symbolic Mobility: Narratives of Borderline Personality Disorder
- Chapter 8
- Is It Me or is it Prozac? Antidepressants and the Construction of Self
- Part IV
- Toward New Approaches: Epistemology, Research, Politics
- Chapter 9
- Psychological Distress and Postmodern Thought
- Chapter 10
- Women's Madness: A Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach
- Chapter 11
- Grammar and the Brain.
- Chapter 12
- Does a Story Need a Theory? Understanding the Methodology of Narrative Therapy
- Index.