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9780761952527

Pathology and the Postmodern : Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience

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    9780761952527

  • ISBN10:

    0761952527

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-02-11
  • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

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'This is a wonderful volume, powerfully written, timely, insightful, and filled with major pieces; the passion, intellectual rigor and sense of history found here promises to shape this field in the decades to come. This volume sets the agenda for the future' - Norman K Denzin, University of IllinoisPathology and the Postmodern explores the relationship between mental distress and social constructionism using new work from eminent scholars in the fields of sociology, psychology and philosophy.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

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii
Preface xi
I INTRODUCTION
The Broken Dialogue: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience
1(17)
Dwight Fee
II PSYCHIATRIC DISCOURSE AND MENTAL LIFE IN POSTMODERN SPACES
Escape from Insanity: `Mental Disorder' in the Postmodern Moment
18(31)
Simon Gottschalk
Performing Methods: History, Hysteria, and the New Science of Psychiatry
49(25)
Jackie Orr
The Project of Pathology: Reflexivity and Depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation
74(26)
Dwight Fee
III PATHOLOGY AND SELFHOOD: NEW AND CONTESTED SUBJECTIVITIES
The Self: Transfiguration by Technology
100(16)
Kenneth J. Gergen
Modernists at Heart? Postmodern Artistic `Breakdowns' and the Question of Identity
116(25)
Mark Freeman
A Dangerous Symbolic Mobility: Narratives of Borderline Personality Disorder
141(22)
Janet Wirth-Cauchon
Is It Me or Is it Prozac? Antidepressants and the Construction of Self
163(23)
John P. Hewitt
Michael R. Fraser
LeslieBeth Berger
IV TOWARD NEW APPROACHES: EPISTEMOLOGY, RESEARCH, POLITICS
Psychological Distress and Postmodern Thought
186(21)
Vivien Burr
Trevor Butt
Women's Madness: A Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach
207(24)
Jane Ussher
Grammar and the Brain
231(17)
Stev R. Sabat
Rom Harre
Does a Story Need a Theory? Understanding the Methodology of Narrative Therapy
248(15)
Fred Newman
Index 263

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