Idealization Viii:
Publisher: Rodopi Bv Editions
Published: January 1997
Format: Library Binding
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9789042003132
First sentence: According to British researcher Roy Porter, "Labeling insanity is primarily a social act, a cultural construct ... we pin on people displaying a rather subjectively defined bundle of sympathies and traits, but who at bottom are just mildly or severely 'different' or 'odd'" (1987, pp. 38-39).