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This volume presents an international research study which reconceptualizes diagnoses of schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the lived experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from the symptoms and experiences included in conventional diagnostic systems.
List of contents
Foreword Introduction 1. Psychiatric Diagnosis in History 2. The Emergence of the "Schizophrenia" Diagnosis: Conventional, Cross-Cultural, and Alternative Approaches 3. Phenomenological Accounts 4. A Multi-Site, International Project 5. Urhomelessness as a Way of Being-in-the-World 6. Wandering in Exile: The Nomadic Moment 7. Imaginal and Ideal Home: The Settled Moment 8. Impossibility of Shelter: The Destitute Moment 9. A Continuum of Experience: Urhomelessness and Recovery 10. Cultural Diversity and Sameness 11. Diagnostic Heterogeneities 12. Phenomenlogical and Interdisciplinary Literatures 13. Future Directions 14. Implications for Cultural and Structural Worlds
About the author
Sarah Kamens is a clinical psychologist and interdisciplinary researcher whose work focuses on the phenomenology of emotional distress, including the distress that results from structural disparities and psychosocial mar-ginalization. Alongside her colleagues in the Society for Humanistic Society, Dr. Kamens explores possibilities for diagnostic alternatives in the mental health professions.
Summary
This volume presents an international research study which reconceptualizes diagnoses of schizophrenia through an investigation of ways in which the lived experiences of those with a diagnosis differ from the symptoms and experiences included in conventional diagnostic systems.
