Patient Tales : Case Histories and the Uses of Narrative in Psychiarty /
This text looks into communicating psychiatric patient histories, from the asylum years to the clinics of modern day. In this study of tales of mental illness, Carol Berkenkotter examines the evolving role of case history narratives in the growth of psychiatry as a medical profession.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, S.C. :
University of South Carolina Press,
2008.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Case histories in the hospital and the medical journal in enlightenment Scotland
- In his own words : using a patient's utterances to document an "unsound mind"
- Capturing insanity : the wedding of photography and physiognomy in the mid-nineteenth-century medical journal article
- Asylum notes : the historical antecedents of psychiatry's case histories
- The Freudian hiatus : psychoanalysis and narrative in fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria
- Case histories and the transformation of American psychiatry : near demise of a genre during the rise of a "scientific" classification system
- Psychotherapist as author : case reports, classification, and categorization (with Doris Ravotas)
- In retrospect : a case for historical narrative inquiry.