Patient tales
Subtitle: case histories and the uses of narrative in psychiatry
By: Carol Berkenkotter.
Series: Studies in rhetoric/communication
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781570037610
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Case studies -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatry -- Case studies -- History -- 20th century; Mentally ill -- History; Psychiatry -- history; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Interview, Psychological; Medical Records; Mental Disorders -- therapy; Narration -- history
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Case histories in the hospital and the medical journal in enlightenment Scotland; title: In his own words : using a patient's utterances to document an "unsound mind"; title: Capturing insanity : the wedding of photography and physiognomy in the mid-nineteenth-century medical journal article; title: Asylum notes : the historical antecedents of psychiatry's case histories; title: The Freudian hiatus : psychoanalysis and narrative in fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria; title: Case histories and the transformation of American psychiatry : near demise of a genre during the rise of a "scientific" classification system; title: Psychotherapist as author : case reports, classification, and categorization (with Doris Ravotas); title: In retrospect : a case for historical narrative inquiry.