Pathology and the Postmodern
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Pathology and the Postmodern

Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience

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eBook - PDF

Pathology and the Postmodern

Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience

About this book

`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 Illinois

`A beautifully crafted manuscript which re-invigorates the rather stale debate between the traditionalists and the anti-psychiatry schools of thought.... For all those working in mental health arenas the journeying through this text will be highly rewarding indeed. Stick with it.? - Mental Health Care

`This is a book which will apeal to those interested in theoretical debates rather than to practitioners who may find it heavey weather if they have not had the time or resources to engage with what are often quite difficult and often dense writings? - British Journal of Social Work

`This book.. present[s] a clarity that is vivid.... This book would be a good place for psychiatrists to start? - British Journal of Psychiatry

Pathology 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 deconstructed in technological, culturally mediated and hyper-reflexive contexts; and what new critiques of positivism and new understandings of `pathology? seem viable, given these still emerging scenarios.

Building upon work in such areas as labelling theory, feminist studies, linguistics, and post-structuralism, the twelve chapters engage the cultural, historical and political conditions that should be implicated in our understanding of contemporary mental suffering.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on Contributors
  4. Preface
  5. Part I - Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 - The Broken Dialogue: Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience
  7. Part II - Psychiatric Discourse and Mental Life in Postmodern Spaces
  8. Chapter 2 - Escape from Insanity: 'Mental Disorder' in the Postmodern Moment
  9. Chapter 3 - Performing Methods: History, Hysteria, and the New Science of Psychiatry
  10. Chapter 4 - The Project of Pathology: Reflexivity and Depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation
  11. Part III - Pathology and Selfhood: New and Contested Subjectivities
  12. Chapter 5 - The Self: Transfiguration by Technology
  13. Chapter 6 - Modernists at Heart? Postmodern Artistic 'Breakdowns' and the Question of Identity
  14. Chapter 7 - A Dangerous Symbolic Mobility: Narratives of Borderline Personality Disorder
  15. Chapter 8 - Is It Me or is it Prozac? Antidepressants and the Construction of Self
  16. Part IV - Toward New Approaches: Epistemology, Research, Politics
  17. Chapter 9 - Psychological Distress and Postmodern Thought
  18. Chapter 10 - Women's Madness: A Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach
  19. Chapter 11 - Grammar and the Brain
  20. Chapter 12 - Does a Story Need a Theory? Understanding the Methodology of Narrative Therapy
  21. Index