Pathology and the postmodern : mental illness as discourse and experience / / edited by Dwight Fee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822828903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : SAGE, 2000
• ISBN: 0-585-33564-8; 1-84860-889-6; 1-283-88042-3; 0-7619-5252-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 271 p.)
• Collana: Inquiries in social construction
• Altri autori (Persone): FeeDwight
• Disciplina: 616.89
• Soggetti: Mental illness - Social aspects; Psychology, Pathological; Social psychiatry; Postmodernism
• 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.