| Description |
xiii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Inquiries in social construction
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Broken dialogue : mental illness as discourse and experience / Dwight Fee -- Escape from insanity : 'mental disorder' in the postmodern moment / Simon Gottschalk -- Performing methods : history, hysteria, and the new science of psychiatry / Jackie Orr -- Project of pathology : reflexivity and depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac nation / Dwight Fee -- Self : transfiguration by technology / Kenneth J. Gergen -- Modernists at heart? Postmodern artistic 'breakdowns' and the question of identity / Mark Freeman -- Dangerous symbolic mobility : narratives of borderline personality disorder / Janet Wirth-Cauchon -- Is it me or is it Prozac? Antidepressants and the construction of self / John P. Hewitt, Michael R. Fraser and LeslieBeth Berger -- Psychological distress and postmodern thought / Vivien Burr and Trevor Butt -- Women's madness : a material-discursive-intrapsychic approach / Jane Ussher -- Grammar and the brain / Steven R. Sabat and Rom Harre -- Does a story need a theory? Understanding the methodology of narrative therapy / Fred Newman. |
| Subject |
Mental illness -- Social aspects.
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Psychology, Pathological.
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Social psychiatry.
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Postmodernism.
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| Added Author |
Fee, Dwight.
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| ISBN |
0761952535 (pbk.) |
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0761952527 |
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