1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910818665803321

Autore

Wenegrat Brant

Titolo

Patients, doctors and the illness role : the theater of disorder / / Brant Wenegrat [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773714-5

1-280-83495-1

9786610834952

0-19-534976-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

610.69/6

616.89

Soggetti

Sick - Psychology

Social influence

Physician and patient

Social psychiatry

Psychotherapist and patient

Health and Wellbeing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. The Theater of Disorder; 2. Basic Research and Observations; 3. Anthropological and Historical Studies; 4. Playing the Hypnotic Game; 5. Hysteria and Hysteria-like Disorders; 6. Multiple Personality Disorder; 7. Recovered Memory Roles; 8. Self-Knowledge, the Unconscious, and the Future of Illness Roles; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

There are certain phenomena such as multiple personality disorder and alien abduction syndrome that are difficult to explain. This volume applies a model of social relations to these phenomena in order to try to find an explanation.