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Informationen zum Autor Dwight Fee is Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Middlebury College, Vermont CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA: Vivian Burr, University of Huddersfield Trevor Butt, University of Huddersfield Rom Harr[ac]e, Linacre College, Oxford University Jane M Ussher, University of Western Sydney Klappentext In this wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between mental distress and social constructionism, eminent cross-disciplinary scholars rework modernist assumptions about the phenomenology of mental dysfunction. 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 and understandings of `pathology' seem viable, given these still emerging scenarios. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Broken Dialogue - Dwight Fee Mental Illness as Discourse and Experience PART TWO: PSYCHIATRIC DISCOURSE AND MENTAL LIFE IN POSTMODERN SPACES Escape from Insanity - Simon Gottschalk `Mental Disorder¿ in the Postmodern Moment Performing Methods - Jackie Orr History, Hysteria and the New Science of Psychiatry The Project of Pathology - Dwight Fee Reflexivity and Depression in Elizabeth Wurtzel¿s /f003Prozac Nation PART THREE: PATHOLOGY AND SELFHOOD: NEW AND CONTESTED SUBJECTIVITIES The Self - Kenneth J Gergen Transfiguration by Technology Modernists at Heart? Postmodern Artist Breakdowns and the Question of Identity - Mark Freeman A Dangerous Symbolic Mobility - Janet Wirth-Cauchon Narratives of Borderline Personality Disorder Is it Me or Is it Prozac? Antidepressants and the Construction of Self - John P Hewitt, Michael R Fraser and Leslie Beth Berger PART FOUR: TOWARD NEW APPROACHES: EPISTEMOLOGY, RESEARCH, POLITICS Psychological Distress and Postmodern Thought - Vivian Burr and Trevor Butt Women¿s Madness - Jane Ussher A Material-Discursive-Intrapsychic Approach Grammar and the Brain - S R Sabat and Rom Harr[ac]e Does a Story Need a Theory? Understanding the Methodology of Narrative Therapy - Fred Newman ...
