ISBN:
9780761952534
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (289 p)
Series Statement:
Inquiries in Social Construction series
Parallel Title:
Print version Pathology and the Postmodern : Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Psychology, Pathological
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Abstract:
In this wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between mental distress and social constructionism, eminent cross-disciplinary scholars rework modernist assumptions about the phenomenology of mental dysfunction. The authors address how specific cultural, economic and historical forces converge in contemporary psychiatry and psychology, how new syndromes, subjectivities and identities are being constructed and deconstructed in technological, culturally mediated and hyper-reflexive contexts, and what new critiques and understandings of `pathology' seem viable, given these still emerging sce
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 12 - Does a Story Need a Theory? Understanding the Methodology of Narrative TherapyIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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