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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451675203321

Titolo

Pathology and the postmodern [[electronic resource] ] : mental illness as discourse and experience / / edited by Dwight Fee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2000

ISBN

0-585-33564-8

1-84860-889-6

1-283-88042-3

0-7619-5252-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

Inquiries in social construction

Altri autori (Persone)

FeeDwight

Disciplina

306.461

Soggetti

Mental illness - Social aspects

Postmodernism

Psychology, Pathological

Social psychiatry

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.