Pathology and the postmodern
Subtitle: mental illness as discourse and experience
By: edited by Dwight Fee
Contributors: Fee, Dwight
Series: Inquiries in social construction
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Mental illness -- Social aspects; Psychology, Pathological; Social psychiatry; Postmodernism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The broken dialogue : mental illness as discourse and experience / Dwight Fee; title: Escape from insanity : 'mental disorder' in the postmodern moment / Simon Gottschalk; title: Performing methods : history, hysteria, and the new science of psychiatry / Jackie Orr; title: The project of pathology : reflexivity and depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac nation / Dwight Fee; title: The self : transfiguration by technology / Kenneth J. Gergen; title: Modernists at heart? Postmodern artistic 'breakdowns' and the question of identity / Mark Freeman; title: A dangerous symbolic mobility : narratives of borderline personality disorder / Janet Wirth-Cauchon; title: Is it me or is it prozac? Antidepressants and the construction of self / John P. Hewitt, Michael R. Fraser and LeslieBeth Berger; title: Psychological distress and postmodern thought / Vivien Burr and Trevor Butt; title: Women's madness : a material-discursive-intrapsychic approach / Jane Ussher; title: Grammar and the brain / Steven R. Sabat and Rom Harré; title: Does a story need a theory? Understanding the methodology of narrative therapy / Fred Newman