Pathology and the postmodern mental illness as discourse and experience

With contributions from leading cross-disciplinary scholars this volume offers a wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between mental illness and social constructionism discourse and subjective experience.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fee, Dwight (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications 2000.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Inquiries in social construction.
Materias:
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798042306719
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 TechnologyChapter 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 TherapyIndex